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Real Estate/Development

Aug. 16, 2012

Justin X. Thompson

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Los Angeles Specialties: residential and commercial development and acquisition


Thompson's client, prominent Beverly Hills developer Sonny Astani, had spent years securing government approvals to build a $300 million, 700-unit low-rise steel and glass apartment building with rooftop pool and ground floor retail space on a long-vacant three-acre lot in downtown Los Angeles.


But in June, the attorney helped Astani sell the plot, now home to parking lots, to a Colorado limited liability corporation called CPIVG8 for $63 million - a sum Ast...

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