The Wire Instructions Changed the Night Before a Florida Closing: Who Eats the Loss
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.
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.
An ERC refund on the target’s books is a six-year IRS audit tail under OBBBA. How buyers diligence, indemnify, and escrow employee retention credit risk.
Whether an anti-assignment clause blocks your deal depends on structure: asset sales trigger it, stock sales don’t, and Meso Scale says reverse mergers usually don’t.
Florida’s missing income tax makes pre-exit relocation tempting, but domicile is a facts test — and your old state keeps taxing what was earned inside it.
Florida gas station deals live and die on the tank file: DEP registration, legacy cleanup-program eligibility, deductibles, and who pays for the plume.
A stock or LLC-interest sale can reset the 10% non-homestead assessment cap on the target’s Florida real estate — and a missed DR-430 carries a 50% penalty.
Florida CAM firms are consolidating fast post-Surfside. The 468.432 firm license, your licensed managers, and terminable management contracts drive the deal.
When a company sells, option holders get cashed out, assumed, or cancelled — and the check is W-2 wages, not capital gain. How 409A and the merger agreement decide.
After a Florida asset sale, the seller entity still owes its debts. Sections 607.1406 and 607.1407 let a dissolved seller cut off claims — on a strict calendar.
Every Florida closing set includes a FIRPTA non-foreign certificate — section 1445 makes the buyer liable for 15% withholding if the seller is foreign.