This article was written with the assistance of Chaviva Schoffman, an associate at Newark, NJ-based law firm of Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross. Law firm partner Robert Hempstead has specialized in real estate finance, particularly CMBS, for the past 10 years.

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