PETER FRIEDENBERG is chairman of the real estate department at Sherin and Lodgen LLP, in Boston. He maintains a broad transactional real estate practice involving acquisition, development, permitting, financing, leasing, and disposition for clients ranging from developers and lenders to educational institutions, public agencies, and operating companies. He has extensive experience in the acquisition, development, leasing, and operation of office, research and development, and commercial properties, as well as in the formation and management of acquisition teams involving professionals from a multitude of disciplines. Mr. Friedenberg has served as real estate counsel for a number of years to a Fortune 500 company in connection with its national real estate facilities program. He is a frequent contributor to continuing legal education programs on real estate–related topics. In addition to his work on this book, he is a contributing author to Crocker’s Notes on Common Forms (MCLE, Inc. 9th ed. 2006 & Supp. 2008), Massachusetts Mortgages, Foreclosures and Workouts (MCLE, Inc. 4th ed. 2008), and Drafting Commercial Real Estate Documents in Massachusetts (MCLE, Inc. 2004 & Supp. 2009). Mr. Friedenberg received a J.D., cum laude, in 1980 from Cornell Law School, where he was managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal, and B.A., with honors, from the University of Rochester in 1977.  (February 2010).