Allen Matkins Nominated for Chambers USA Awards for Excellence 2012

SAN DIEGO – April 13, 2012 – Chambers USA, in connection with Lex Mundi, announced that the law firm Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP has been nominated for Chambers USA Awards for Excellence 2012 in the category of Real Estate.

These awards are based on research for the 2012 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and reflect a firm's national pre-eminence in key practice areas, as well as notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth, and excellence in client service. The winners of the awards will be announced at a dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York on June 7, 2012.

"Allen Matkins' real estate practice has been top ranked by Chambers in California for 10 years in a row," said Allen Matkins Managing Partner, David Osias. "We are honored to now be recognized as having one of the best real estate practices in the U.S. Our clients benefit from our national real estate expertise despite our being the only nominated firm not having national and international offices."

Allen Matkins continues to build upon its long-standing reputation as one of the leading real estate law firms in the United States, having assisted clients in all aspects of law relating to the development, management, financing, acquisition and disposition of real property assets. Because the firm has one of the largest real estate departments in the country, the firm's attorneys bring to every deal their relationships with major players in the real estate industry, including developers, brokers, buyers, sellers, governmental agencies, title companies and consultants.

In addition, Chambers interviewed Allen Matkins clients and received feedback that the firm has an "extremely prominent and roundly admired real estate practice." Clients enthused about the "very smart specialists in every field who can address every client need."

Despite the recent recession, the last fiscal year (FY2011) was the second most profitable year in Allen Matkins' history. The firm's strategic plan calls for the expansion of its core real estate-related practices and complementary practices, including environmental, land use and finance, along with related litigation, in order to increase its market share and build on the high value and reputation of Allen Matkins in the real estate industry.

The firm recently elected three attorneys to the firm's partnership: Yale Kim, a bankruptcy and creditors' rights attorney with significant experience representing secured real estate lenders; and Alain R'bibo and David Stone, broadly skilled core real estate lawyers in Century City and Los Angeles.

Allen Matkins takes a leadership role in the real estate markets that it serves and produces many research and market intelligence reports. For five years the firm, in partnership with UCLA, has produced the "Allen Matkins / UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index" to better predict future California commercial real estate trends. The survey questions supply-side participants - commercial developers and financiers of commercial development - for insights into their markets.

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ABOUT ALLEN MATKINS

Allen Matkins, founded in 1977, is a California-based law firm with approximately 220 attorneys in four major metropolitan areas of California: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and San Diego. The firm's core specialties include real estate, litigation, land use, environmental, water rights and natural resources, banking and finance, bankruptcy, tax and joint venture, corporate and securities, construction and labor and employment. For more than 30 years, Allen Matkins has helped clients turn opportunity and challenge into success by providing practical advice, innovative solutions and valuable business opportunities.