Based in New Orleans, Advantage Capital has been lobbying in state capitols around the country for more than two decades. In the late 1990s, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post, lobbyists for the company helped write the law for an incentive program in which insurance companies would get tax credits from the state if they invested in entities – managed by firms like Advantage -- that then invested into new or expanding businesses around the state. That program eventually ended after opponents, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, grew skeptical that the incentives were effective.