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Estoppel Certificates: Broad Shields and Legal Minefields

Feb 26, 2018

It is commonplace that commercial tenants are expected to deliver signed estoppel certificates in connection with any sale or financing transaction involving property they lease. Sometimes referred to as status statements, or tenant acknowledgements, estoppel certificates are intended to be statements of fact about the key terms of a lease, up which the party requesting that information may rely. 

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