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Call to Standardize Loan Documents

LOS ANGELES—Allen Matkins’ Steve Lieske says that uniformity of law may not be achievable, but the industry could standardize loan documents to create a more efficient process, GlobeSt.com reports in this EXCLUSIVE story.

Steve Lieske Steve Lieske is a partner at Allen Matkins.

LOS ANGELES—Real estate finance attorneys are looking ahead at ways to create efficiencies in real estate finance law. Kathleen Smalley, a partner at Locke and Lord, made an argument for uniformity of finance law. Steve Lieske, a partner at Allen Matkins, is not convinced of the need for uniformity of finance law, but has made the case for more standardized loan documents. Lieske says that standardizing loan documents is more achievable and will have an immediate impact. To find out more about the need for standardizing loan documents and how that would happen, we sat down with Lieske for an exclusive interview.

GlobeSt.com: Why do you think that we should create a standard set of loan documents?

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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