S-3ASR: Automatic shelf registration statement of securities of well-known seasoned issuers

Exhibit 5.3

Akerman LLP 401 E. Jackson Street Suite 1700 Tampa, FL 33602-5250

December 22, 2015

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.

200 International Circle

Suite 3500

Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have served as special Florida counsel to Florida Real Estate Company, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“FREC”), Pensacola Real Estate Holdings I, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Pensacola I”), Pensacola Real Estate Holdings II, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Pensacola II”), Pensacola Real Estate Holdings III, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Pensacola III”), Pensacola Real Estate Holdings IV, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Pensacola IV”), Pensacola Real Estate Holdings V, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Pensacola V”), and Skyler Pensacola, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Skyler” and, together with FREC, Pensacola I, Pensacola II, Pensacola III, Pensacola IV, Pensacola V, the “Florida Guarantors”), each of which is a wholly owned, direct or indirect, as applicable, subsidiary of Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) being filed by the Company and the subsidiary guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto (the “Subsidiary Guarantors”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), relating to (i) debt securities of the Company (the “Debt Securities”), which may be issued in one or more series under one or more indentures or supplemental indentures (the “Indentures”) proposed to be entered into with one or more indenture trustees (each, an “Indenture Trustee”) and (ii) guarantees by one or more of the Company or the Registrant Guarantors of the Debt Securities (the “Guarantees,” and together with the Debt Securities, the “Securities”). An indeterminate amount of the Securities may be offered at indeterminate prices from time to time by the Company as set forth in the Registration Statement, any amendment thereto, the prospectus contained therein (the “Prospectus”), and supplements to the Prospectus (the “Prospectus Supplements”) filed pursuant to Rule 415 under the Act.

The Securities will be issued under an applicable Indenture to be entered into among the Company, the Registrant Guarantors and an Indenture Trustee. The Indentures together with the Registration Statement (including all exhibits thereto), the Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplements, the Debt Securities and the Guarantees are collectively referred to as the “Transaction Documents.”

We have not been involved in the preparation of the Registration Statement, nor were we involved in the negotiation, preparation or execution of the Indenture, the Guarantees (as defined below), or any of the related agreements to be executed or delivered in connection with the issuance of the Securities. We have been retained solely for the purpose of rendering certain opinions pursuant to Florida and New York law with respect to the Florida Guarantors.

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In connection with issuing this opinion, we have reviewed originals or copies of the following documents:

We have, with your consent, assumed that certificates of public officials dated earlier than the date of this opinion letter remain accurate from such earlier dates through and including the opinion letter date.

In rendering the opinions set forth herein, we have relied, without investigation, on each of the following assumptions: (a) the legal capacity of each natural person to take all actions required of each such person in connection with the Registration Statement; (b) the legal existence of each party to the Transaction Documents, other than the Florida Guarantors; (c) the power of each party to the Transaction Documents, other than the Florida Guarantors, to execute, deliver, and perform all Transaction Documents executed and delivered by such party and to do each other act done or to be done by such party; (d) the authorization, execution, and delivery by each party, other than the Florida Guarantors, of each Transaction Document executed and delivered or to be executed and delivered by such party; (e) the legality, validity, binding effect, and enforceability as to each party, other than the Florida Guarantors, of each Transaction Document executed and delivered by such party or to be executed and delivered and of each other act done or to be done by such party; (f) there have been no undisclosed modifications of any provision of any document reviewed by us in connection with the rendering of this opinion letter, and no undisclosed prior waiver of any right or remedy contained in any of the Transaction Documents; (g) the genuineness of each signature, the completeness of each document submitted to us, the authenticity of each document reviewed by us as an original, the conformity to the original of each document reviewed by us as a copy, and the authenticity of the original of each document received by us as a copy or by facsimile or other means of electronic transmission, or which we obtained from the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”) or other sites maintained by a court or government authority or regulatory body, and the authenticity of the originals or such latter documents, and if any document we examined in printed, word processed or similar form has been filed with the Commission on EDGAR or such court or governmental authority or regulatory body, we have further assumed that the document so filed is identical to the document we examined except for formatting changes; (h) the truthfulness of each statement as to all factual matters otherwise not known to us to be untruthful contained in any document encompassed within the diligence review undertaken by us; (i) each certificate or other document issued by a public authority is accurate, complete, and authentic as of the date of this opinion letter, and all official public records (including their proper indexing and filing) are accurate and complete; (j) the Registration Statement and the conduct of the parties to the Registration Statement comply with any requirement of good faith, fair dealing, and conscionability; (k) routine procedural matters such as service of process or qualification to do business in the relevant jurisdiction(s) will be satisfied by the parties seeking to enforce the Transaction Documents; (l) agreements (other than the Transaction Documents as to which opinions are being given) and judgments, decrees, and orders reviewed in connection with rendering the opinions will be enforced as written; (m) there are no agreements or understandings among the parties, written or oral, and there is no usage of trade or course of prior dealing among the parties that would, in either case, define, supplement, modify, or qualify the terms of the Transaction Documents or the rights of the parties thereunder; (n) the payment of all required documentary stamp taxes, intangible taxes, and other taxes and fees imposed upon the execution, filing, or recording of documents; and (o) with respect to the Registration Statement and the Transaction Documents, including the inducement of the parties to enter into and perform their respective obligations thereunder, there has been no mutual mistake of fact or undue influence and there exists no fraud or duress.

We also have assumed that (i) at the time of execution, authentication, issuance and delivery of the Debt Securities and (ii) at the time of execution, issuance and delivery of the Guarantees, the applicable Indenture will be the valid and legally binding obligation of the Indenture Trustee, enforceable against such party in accordance with its terms.

We have assumed further that (i) at the time of execution, authentication, issuance and delivery of any of the Debt Securities, the applicable Indenture will be in full force and effect and will not have been terminated or rescinded by the Company or the Indenture Trustee and at the time of issuance and sale of any of the Debt Securities, the terms of such Debt Securities, and their issuance and sale, will have been established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company and (ii) at the time of execution, issuance and delivery of any Guarantee offered by any Registrant Guarantor, the Guarantee will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Registrant Guarantor and will be in full force and effect and will not have been terminated or rescinded by such Registrant Guarantor and at the time of issuance and sale of any Guarantee by any Registrant Guarantor, the terms of the Guarantee, and its issuance and sale, will have been established so as not to violate any applicable law or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon such Registrant Guarantor, and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over such Registrant Guarantor.

Based upon the foregoing and in reliance thereon, and subject to the assumptions, comments, qualifications, limitations, and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that, with respect to the Guarantees by the Florida Guarantors (the “Florida Guarantees”), assuming the (a) taking of all necessary entity action to authorize and approve the issuance and terms of the Florida Guarantees, the terms of the offering thereof and related matters and (b) due execution, issuance and delivery of the Florida Guarantees upon payment of the consideration therefor provided for in the applicable definitive purchase, underwriting or similar agreement approved by each Florida Guarantor’s board of directors, general partners or managers, or any authorized committee thereof, or by each Florida Guarantor’s members, as applicable, and otherwise in accordance with the provisions of the applicable Indenture, any supplemental indenture to be entered into in connection with the issuance of such Florida Guarantees, such Florida Guarantees will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Florida Guarantors, enforceable against such Florida Guarantors in accordance with their terms.

The following Florida, New York and federal laws, rules and regulations are expressly excluded from the scope of this opinion letter: (a) securities laws, rules, and regulations; (b) Federal Reserve Board margin regulations; (c) laws, rules, and regulations regulating banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, and investment companies; (d) pension and employee benefit laws, rules, and regulations, such as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); (e) labor laws, rules, and regulations, including laws on occupational safety and health (OSHA); (f) antitrust and unfair competition laws, rules, and regulations; (g) laws, rules, and regulations concerning compliance with fiduciary requirements; (h) laws, rules, and regulations concerning the creation, attachment, perfection, and priority of any lien or security interest; (i) laws, rules, and regulations relating to taxation; (j) bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, and other insolvency laws; (k) environmental laws, rules, and regulations; (l) laws, rules, and regulations relating to patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property; (m) local laws, statutes, administrative decisions, ordinances, rules, or regulations, including any zoning, planning, building, occupancy, or other similar approval or permit or any other ordinance or regulation of any county, municipality, township, or other political subdivision of the State of Florida; (n) criminal and state forfeiture laws and any racketeering laws, rules, and regulations; (o) other statutes of general application to the extent that they provide for criminal prosecution; (p) laws relating to terrorism or money laundering; (q) laws, regulations, and policies concerning national and local emergency and possible judicial deference to acts of sovereign states; (r) filing or consent requirements under any of the foregoing excluded laws; and (t) judicial and administrative decisions to the extent they deal with any of the foregoing excluded laws.

The foregoing opinion is subject to the following exceptions, qualifications, and limitations:

The opinion above is limited by: (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance and transfer, and similar law affecting the rights of creditors’ generally; and (ii) general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity.

No opinion is expressed herein with respect to any provision of the Transaction Documents that: (a) purports to excuse a party from liability for the party’s own acts; (b) purports to make void any act done in contravention thereof; (c) purports to authorize a party to act in the party’s sole discretion or purports to provide that determination by a party is conclusive; (d) requires waivers or amendments to be made only in writing; (e) purports to effect waivers of constitutional, statutory, or equitable rights or the effect of applicable laws, waivers of any statute of limitations, or waivers of broadly or vaguely stated rights, of unknown future defenses or of rights to damages; (f) imposes or permits: (i) liquidated damages, (ii) the appointment of a receiver, (iii) penalties, (iv) indemnification for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or other wrongdoing, (v) confessions of judgment, or (vi) rights of self-help or forfeiture; (g) purports to limit or alter laws requiring mitigation of damages; (h) concerns choice of forum, consent or submission to the personal or subject matter jurisdiction of courts, venue of actions, or means of service of process, waivers of rights to jury trials, and agreements regarding arbitration; (i) purports to reconstitute the terms thereof as necessary to avoid a claim or defense of usury; (j) purports to require a party thereto to pay or reimburse attorneys’ fees incurred by another party, or to indemnify another party therefor, which provisions may be limited by applicable statutes and decisions relating to the collection and award of attorneys’ fees; (k) relates to the evidentiary standards or other standards by which the Transaction Documents are to be construed, including, but not limited to, provisions that attempt to change or waive rules of evidence or fix the method or quantum of proof to be applied in litigation or similar proceedings; (l) enumerates that remedies are not exclusive or that a party has the right to pursue multiple remedies without regard to other remedies elected or that all remedies are cumulative; (m) constitutes severability provisions; (n) permits the exercise, under certain circumstances, of rights without notice or without providing opportunity to cure failures to perform; (o) purports to create rights to setoff otherwise than in accordance with applicable law; (p) contains a blanket prohibition on assignments or a specific prohibition on assignment of payments due or to come due; or (q) purports to entitle any party to specific performance of any provision thereof.

We do not express any opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the States of Florida and New York and the United States of America. We express no opinion as to whether a subsidiary may guarantee or otherwise be liable for indebtedness incurred by its parent except to the extent that such subsidiary may be determined to have benefited from the incurrence of the indebtedness by its parent or whether such benefit may be measured other than by the extent to which the proceeds of the indebtedness incurred by its parent are, directly or indirectly, made available to such subsidiary for its corporate or other analogous purposes.

You have informed us that you intend to issue the Securities from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, and this opinion is limited to the laws, including the rules and regulations, as in effect on the date hereof. We understand that prior to issuing any Securities you will afford us an opportunity to review the operative documents pursuant to which such Securities are to be issued (including the applicable Prospectus Supplement) and will file such supplement or amendment to this opinion letter (if any) as we may reasonably consider necessary or appropriate by reason of the terms of such Securities.

This opinion letter speaks only as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update or supplement this opinion letter if any applicable laws change after the date of this opinion letter or if we become aware after the date of this opinion letter of any facts, whether existing before or arising after the date hereof, that might change the opinions expressed above.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of our name therein and in the related prospectus under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus. We also consent to your filing copies of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement with agencies of such states as you deem necessary in the course of complying with the laws of such states regarding the offer and sale of the Securities. In giving such consent, we do not thereby concede that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder.

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