Exhibit 34.3

 

 

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

Board of Directors and Management of

Situs Holdings, LLC

 

We have examined management’s assertion, included in the accompanying Certification Regarding Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria (“Management’s Assertion”), that Situs Holdings, LLC (the “Company” or “Situs”) a wholly-owned subsidiary of SitusAMC Holdings Corporation, complied with servicing criteria set forth in Items 1117, 1119, 1122(d)(3)(i) and 1122(d)(4)(vii) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB for the Operating or Trust Advisor Services Platform (the “Platform) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019. The platform consists of asset-backed transactions and securities for which the Company was named as the Operating/Trust Advisor as defined by management in Appendix B of Management’s report. Management is responsible for the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assertion about the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria for the Platform based on our examination.

 

Our examination was conducted in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria for the Platform and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination included testing selected asset-backed transactions and securities constituting the Platform and evaluating whether the Company performed servicing activities related to those transactions and securities in compliance with the applicable servicing criteria for the period covered by this report. Accordingly, our testing may not have included servicing activities related to each asset-backed transaction or security constituting the Platform. Further, our examination was not designed to detect material noncompliance that may have occurred prior to the period covered by this report and that may have affected the Company’s servicing activities during the period covered by this report. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company’s compliance with the applicable servicing criteria.

 

In our opinion, management’s assertion that Situs Holdings, LLC complied with the aforementioned applicable servicing criteria as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019 for the Platform is fairly stated, in all material respects.

 

 

GRANT THORNTON LLP

Kansas City, Missouri

February 20, 2020 |

 

 

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