Florida

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.

Between signing and closing you are still competitors. Gun-jumping enforcement — including a record $5.68 million FTC penalty — polices the space between.

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.

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.

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.