Dom Dominguez, MBA, MS is a Florida-licensed business broker (FL Lic. FL BK3529743) representing owners of privately-held businesses across the state — under Florida's 61J2 brokerage framework, with confidentiality as the default rather than an upgrade.
Florida is one of the states that actually regulates business brokerage: selling a business for another for compensation requires a Florida real estate license, and the practice operates under Florida Administrative Code Rule 61J2 — the same commission rules, escrow discipline, and disclosure obligations that govern real estate brokerage. That bar filters the field. Anyone can print "M&A advisor" on a card; a Florida license number can be verified on the DBPR website in thirty seconds, and ours is in the footer of every page on this site.
The license also shapes how engagements run: written engagement agreements, regulated escrow handling, and a regulator with a complaint process behind every transaction. For a seller handing a stranger their financial statements, that structure is not bureaucracy — it's the floor of trust the whole process stands on.
Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco — one of the most active main-street and lower-middle-market regions in the state, with deep buyer pools in services, healthcare, and skilled trades.
Tourism-adjacent businesses price differently than they read on paper — seasonality and booking-platform concentration are the diligence battlegrounds, and presenting them correctly is the difference between a discount and a defense.
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach carry the state's densest buyer pool, including international acquirers — and visa-driven buyers (E-2, EB-5) whose requirements shape deal structure in ways sellers rarely anticipate.
Logistics, contracting, and industrial services dominate; license transferability and bonding capacity are usually the gating diligence items.
The license is statewide and the process is document-driven — a confidential sale in Ocala or Naples runs exactly like one in Tampa. Geography inside Florida is not a constraint.
Valuation grounded in your actual financials, not a listing-site guess. A blind marketing profile that describes the business without identifying it. Buyer qualification — NDA plus financial capability — before anyone learns the name. A competitive process rather than a single-buyer negotiation. And the Florida-specific mechanics handled in sequence: sales-tax clearance, license transfers, lease assignment, and closing through a regulated escrow. Staff, customers, and competitors typically learn of the sale after it closes, not before.
Deals that cross state lines — an owner relocating, a multi-location business, an out-of-state buyer — run through the partner framework described on our multi-state engagements page: Florida licensure plus written referral, advisory, or co-brokerage arrangements where another state's law requires local representation.
Start a confidential inquiry — two sentences about the business, no documents, and we'll tell you what the process would look like for your industry and metro. First read what your business is worth or how the confidential process keeps the sale invisible until closing.
Yes — Florida regulates business brokerage under its real-estate licensing framework, operating under Rule 61J2. Verify any broker's license on the Florida DBPR website before engaging.
Yes. The license is statewide and the confidential process is document- and process-driven; metro size affects the buyer pool composition more than the process itself.
The broker is licensed in Florida, United States (License FL BK3529743) and can conduct business in 35 states across America. Out-of-state transactions are handled through compliant referral, advisory, or licensed partner structures as required by applicable law.
This Site is owned and operated by ALBEO FL LLC, doing business as Albeo Business Advisors, a Florida limited liability company licensed as a real estate brokerage by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, License No. CQ1075604. Dom Dominguez, MBA, MS is the brokerage's qualifying broker, Florida Broker License No. BK3529743. Albeo Business Advisors is the trade name registered on that license for ALBEO FL LLC; it is not a separate legal entity. Phone: 813-389-9466. ALBEO FL LLC does not claim or represent real estate licensure in any state other than Florida.