Buying a Florida Med Spa: The Health Care Clinic Act License Most Buyers Miss
Florida’s Health Care Clinic Act can end a med spa’s licensure exemption at closing. The ownership tests, the CHOW clock, and the criminal traps.
Florida’s Health Care Clinic Act can end a med spa’s licensure exemption at closing. The ownership tests, the CHOW clock, and the criminal traps.
Florida’s Supreme Court says FDUTPA reaches even a single business sale. Why buyers still lose on damages, and why the fee-shift makes it a two-edged claim.
SOP 50 10 8 rewrote SBA 7(a) acquisition rules: a 10% equity floor, full-standby seller notes, and no earnouts. What that does to Florida main-street deals.
Florida’s optometry statute bars lay ownership of the exam lane but not the optical shop. Structure — not price — is what makes or breaks these deals.
The transition services agreement decides whether a carve-out works on day one. Scope, service standard, pricing, and exit deserve deal-team attention, not a form.
Between signing and closing you are still competitors. Gun-jumping enforcement — including a record $5.68 million FTC penalty — polices the space between.
In a stock sale, the target 401(k) either dies the day before closing or becomes the buyer’s problem. The successor plan rule is why the timing decides everything.
Selling a Florida ambulance or medical transport company means a county COPCN, a DOH license under ch. 401, and a Medicare CHOW — three clocks the LOI must respect.
A PE buyer is usually a shell. The equity commitment letter and limited guaranty are the seller’s only path to real money — here is what to check before signing.
When hacked emails reroute closing funds, Florida courts put the loss on the party best positioned to prevent the fraud. Drafting that decides it in advance.