JD Woods Law PLC is highlighting its Buy-Side Business Acquisition Due Diligence engagement for Florida buyers acquiring an operating small business, typically an asset purchase under roughly $2 million. The engagement runs from the letter of intent through closing and delivers a written due-diligence memorandum before the buyer signs, quoted after a short intake at From $7,500 from Jacksonville, Florida.
The work targets the failures that cost Florida buyers the most. It coordinates a Department of Revenue Certificate of Compliance or a sized escrow against successor tax liability under Fla. Stat. s. 213.758, under which a buyer of more than 50% of a business is jointly and severally liable for the seller's unpaid sales and reemployment taxes. Because Florida has no bulk sales law, the engagement runs certified UCC, judgment-lien, and tax-warrant searches against the seller's exact and prior legal names, then insists on payoff letters and UCC-3 terminations at or before closing so a lender's interest does not follow the assets to the buyer.
It also handles the lease assignment and landlord estoppel, the license and permit transfer analysis, and the purchase-agreement and holdback drafting that turns each identified risk into a negotiated number. Search and recording fees are billed at cost. Service details and the quote-request intake are at /services/transactional-due-diligence, and the firm's analysis of the five most common diligence failures is at the firm blog.