Founded in 1946 in Philadelphia by a small group of entrepreneurial corporate and commercial lawyers, Blank Rome LLP has grown to be ranked 84th in the Am Law 100 and is among the fastest growing law firms in the country. Our lawyers are known for their extensive experience in the industries, governing bodies, federal and state regulatory and enforcement agencies, and court systems with which they interact regularly. This experience, coupled with formal legal training, enables our lawyers to provide unique insight into potential deal, transaction and litigation outcomes, ultimately offering our clients strategic solutions that will best benefit their business.

Hersha Hospitality Trust (NYSE:HT) is a self-advised real estate investment trust, which owns interests in 80 high quality hotels, totaling over 10,000 rooms, in high barrier markets along the Northeast Corridor, from Boston to Washington, D.C. The Company also owns hotels in Northern California and Scottsdale Arizona. Hersha Hospitality Trust focuses on newly developed midscale, upscale, and upper upscale properties that offer owners strong current income and long-term capital appreciation. Additional information on the Company and it’s portfolio of hotels is available at www.hersha.com.

CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) is a professional services company, providing a comprehensive range of business services, products and solutions that help our clients grow and succeed by better managing their finances and employees.

We are one of the nation’s leading:

• Accounting Providers
• Employee Benefits Specialists
• Property & Casualty Agencies
• Valuation firms
  
• Medical Management practice firms
  
• Retirement Plan service providers

With over 140 offices and 5,000 associates in major metropolitan areas and suburban cities throughout the US, CBIZ serves organizations of all sizes as well as individual clients across the nation by providing national caliber expertise combined with a highly personalized level of service delivered at the local level.

CBIZ is associated with Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM), a national, independent CPA firm. Through this association, we offer audit and attest services. Together, CBIZ and MHM rank as one of the Top Ten accounting providers in the US.

First American's National Commercial Services division serves customers from 13 regional service centers across the nation. Each one offers single-point service for every client, regardless of size, complexity, or geographic diversity of the properties in a transaction.

Our service centers offer expert handling of the simplest commercial transactions to the most complicated multi-property / multi-state transactions, providing personalized and individualized service for every client and every situation.

Our experienced underwriting teams, in service centers everywhere, have unlimited underwriting authority nationally and in some cases internationally. This guarantees creative, competent, and a client-focused approach to the transaction translating into timely closings and reduced transaction costs. And, you're assured of being able to continue to work with one office regardless of the number of property locations.