Business Broker

Jeff Baughman

Specialty, Experience, & Education

Specialty

Jeff is an experienced and accomplished intermediary having represented businesses in multiple capacities for over 15 years in the State of Florida and throughout the country.  His focus is representing sellers and buyers of lower middle market companies in a variety of industries.  Jeff is able to understand and advise on complicated deal structures including various co-invest relationships, exit planning, and financing.  Jeff’s strength is communicating the mechanics of a transaction simply and clearly allowing the principal to make confident business decisions.  Jeff’s ability to identify the critical path for transactions and creative solutions result in a key advantage to achieve a successful closing.

Experience

  • 15 years as a corporate and M&A attorney
  • Trusted resource and advisor for SBA 7(a) loan requirements from application, underwriting, and through closing
  • Advisor to over 100 acquisitions in a variety of states and industries
  • Routine dealings with private equity roll-ups, buyer equity raises, and post-closing licensing and consent requirements
  • Consistently managed multi-state processes coordinating fluidly with sell-side and buy-side teams’ stakeholders and advisors

Education & Credentials

  • Licensed Real Estate Sales Associate
  • Licensed attorney – State of Florida
  • Juris Doctorate – Stetson University College of Law
  • Bachelor of Science, Information, Sciences, and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
  • Member – Florida Bar Business Law Section
  • Business mentor and resource – SCORE Tampa
  • Instructor – SBA Boots2Business program – MacDill Air Force Base
  • Mentor – Veterans Treatment Court – Hillsborough County

Publications & Presentations

  • Speaker: “E-signatures” “FDCPA” “Piercing the Veil” National Ass’n of Credit Managers (NACM)
  • Speaker: “Veteran-owned Businesses” SCORE Tampa
  • Speaker: “Florida’s new LLC Act” Commercial Finance Ass’n
  • Quoted: “What’s next for Creative Recycling Systems” Tampa Bay Business Journal
  • Speaker: “Entrepreneur Workshop” Stetson College of Law (Nov. 2011)