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Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer Serving Jacksonville
Selling a company you built, or buying one you intend to grow, is usually the largest transaction of an owner’s life. We represent Jacksonville buyers and sellers of privately held businesses from the letter of intent through closing.
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Mergers and acquisitions counsel for Jacksonville businesses.
Skandalakis & Ross represents buyers and sellers of privately held businesses in Jacksonville and across Northeast Florida. The M&A practice is led by Jack N. Ross, who works lower middle market transactions from both the legal side and the investment banking side: origination, valuation, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
Jacksonville is a logistics, financial services, and healthcare hub with an active port. In Jacksonville, we regularly see businesses in logistics and port operations, financial services, and healthcare, each with its own contract, diligence, and structuring issues.
That dual perspective changes how the documents get drafted. The purchase agreement should match the economics the parties actually agreed to, and the working capital peg, escrow, earnout, and indemnity terms should hold up after the wire clears. We coordinate with your broker, banker, lender, and CPA and keep the deal on the timeline it was priced on.
The firm’s offices are in Oakland Park, Florida (by appointment) and Canton, Georgia. We meet Jacksonville clients at the Oakland Park office, by video, or at your place of business. Florida matters are handled by Jack N. Ross, licensed to practice law in Florida.
What we handle for Jacksonville clients.
- Sell-side representationPreparing the company for diligence, negotiating the LOI, and protecting the owner after closing.
- Buy-side representationDiligence, structure, and purchase documents for buyers and investors acquiring Jacksonville companies.
- Letters of intentExclusivity, price mechanics, and working capital terms negotiated before they lock in.
- Due diligence & disclosure schedulesWhere sell-side risk is created or eliminated.
- Earnouts, escrow & indemnityThe clauses that keep paying, or keep costing, after closing.
- Joint ventures & recapitalizationsPartial exits, partner buy-ins, and growth structures.
How the engagement works.
- Before the LOIValuation expectations, deal structure, and the terms worth fighting for, set before anything is signed.
- Diligence and documentsPurchase agreement, disclosure schedules, and ancillary agreements drafted around the agreed economics.
- Closing and afterFunds flow, closing deliverables, and the post-closing obligations that survive.
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What Florida law means for Jacksonville transactions.
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M&A lawyer questions from Jacksonville clients.
Do you represent both buyers and sellers in Jacksonville?
Yes, but never both sides of the same transaction. Each party to a deal should have its own counsel.
When should I bring a lawyer into a sale?
Before you sign a letter of intent. Exclusivity, price mechanics, working capital, and escrow terms set at the LOI stage are effectively binding in practice and are the hardest terms to renegotiate later.
How are M&A engagements billed?
Typically a flat fee by phase or hourly against a written estimate, agreed before work begins, so the legal cost is a known input to the deal economics.
Do you meet with Jacksonville clients in person?
The firm’s offices are in Oakland Park, Florida (by appointment) and Canton, Georgia. We meet Jacksonville clients at the Oakland Park office, by video, or at your place of business.
Who handles Florida matters?
Florida matters are handled by Jack N. Ross, licensed to practice law in Florida.
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Attorney advertising. Lawyer responsible for this page: Jack N. Ross, Esq., Oakland Park, Florida office. Serving Jacksonville does not indicate an office in Jacksonville; the firm’s offices are in Canton, Georgia and Oakland Park, Florida.
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Corporate and transactional inquiries go directly to Jack Ross; disputes go to Mitch Skandalakis. Prefer the phone? Call (770) 891-3681.