Timi Anyon Hallem
Timi Hallem is a Manatt Real Estate partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. With over 30 years of real estate law experience, she has earned a reputation as the lawyer to whom clients turn with their most challenging projects. Timi’s practice covers all aspects of real property and hotel ownership and development, including acquisition, entitlement, development, financing, leasing and disposition. She has a depth of experience in all types of real estate projects, including hospitality, commercial, industrial, residential, public/private development, and mixed-use projects.
Timi is the founder and chair of the firm’s Women’s Initiative, a program that uniquely combines firmwide support networks, business coaching and other instructive programs, and innovative policies to help women at Manatt and its clients overcome the professional and personal challenges that too often become barriers to their success. She has been repeatedly recognized by Real Estate Southern California as “One of SoCal’s Most Influential Women in Real Estate” and has been included in the list of The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2006.
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Timi Anyon Hallem
Timi Hallem is a Manatt Real Estate partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. With over 30 years of real estate law experience, she has earned a reputation as the lawyer to whom clients turn with their most challenging projects. Timi’s practice covers all aspects of real property and hotel ownership and development, including acquisition, entitlement, development, financing, leasing and disposition. She has a depth of experience in all types of real estate projects, including hospitality, commercial, industrial, residential, public/private development, and mixed-use projects.
Timi is the founder and chair of the firm’s Women’s Initiative, a program that uniquely combines firmwide support networks, business coaching and other instructive programs, and innovative policies to help women at Manatt and its clients overcome the professional and personal challenges that too often become barriers to their success. She has been repeatedly recognized by Real Estate Southern California as “One of SoCal’s Most Influential Women in Real Estate” and has been included in the list of The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2006.
Experience
Represented Lowe and subsidiary Concord Communities in the formation of a joint venture and documentation of a $51 million loan for the acquisition and future renovation of a 379-unit affordable housing community known as Stanton Glenn Apartments in Washington, D.C.
Represented Lowe Enterprises in the formation of an Opportunity Zone joint venture with Related Fund Management. The venture was created to develop an approximately 113,000-square-foot, nine-story office building located at 2130 Violet Street in the vibrant Arts District in downtown Los Angeles – a designated Opportunity Zone.
Represented a hotel developer in developing resort and conference hotels in California and other western states, including obtaining all governmental approvals, including the California Coastal Commission, required for Terranea, a 582-room hotel located on 102 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and negotiating a ground lease and related documents with the University of California, San Diego for the development of the Estancia La Jolla Hotel.
Represented Lowe Enterprises, Inc., in the negotiation and documentation of a disposition and development agreement and ground lease with Orange County, California, for the development of 100 acres owned by Orange County adjacent to the Great Park in Irvine, California, and formerly part of the El Toro Marine Air Base.
Represented Kennedy Wilson in the acquisition and financing of the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe and in the 2019 sale of the hotel.
Represented a developer in connection with the acquisition, financing and development of a mixed-use residential apartment and retail project in the Arts District of Los Angeles, California.
Represented Lowe Enterprises, Inc., in the negotiation and documentation of a ground lease pursuant to which an affiliate leased from the San Diego Community College District a block of surplus property in downtown San Diego, and in the capitalization, financing and development of a residential project on the property.
Represented a developer in the acquisition, repositioning, reentitlement and redevelopment of a 105-acre, $150 million former manufacturing facility in Hawthorne, California, and in negotiating and documenting the development agreement for the project, which provided zoning unavailable elsewhere in the city.
Represented Lowe Enterprises, Inc., in negotiating and documenting joint venture agreements for projects that include urban housing in the Arts District in Los Angeles, California, luxury housing adjacent to the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., a 550 unit residential project in Seattle, Washington, and the acquisition and redevelopment of a multi-building office park in Virginia.
Represented The Trustees of the California State University in connection with documenting the terms and conditions of development by Anschutz Entertainment Group of a soccer stadium, tennis stadium, USSF training facilities and other athletic facilities on the campus of CSU, Dominguez Hills, including ground leases, an implementation agreement, a joint use agreement and multiple other agreements governing the site.
Represented Hauser & Wirth, the Los Angeles branch of a prominent international art gallery, in negotiations for a new gallery located in a 100,000 square foot former manufacturing facility in the arts district in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Represented Regent Properties in negotiating the rights to develop the Stein Eriksen Residences as a branded residential development in Deer Valley, Utah.
Accomplishments
Speaker, “The Role of the Auxiliary in Developing Public Private Partnerships,” 2017 Auxiliary Organizations Association Conference, January 10, 2017.
Panelist, “Secrets of Successful Client Development,” Women @ the Table: How Do Women Lawyers Make It Rain? Panel Series, Los Angeles, CA, August 27, 2014.
Moderator, “The L.A. River: L.A.’s Newest Waterfront Destination,” USC 2014 Real Estate Law and Business Forum, March 5, 2014.
2010--“The Distressed Hotel Market,” IMN Western Distressed Commercial Real Estate Forum, Los Angeles, California.; “How Do Banks Treat Distressed Hotel Properties,” IMN Banker’s Forum on Distressed Properties and Real Estate Loan Workouts, New York, NY.
2009--“Steering Through Economic Uncertainties,” AAHOA Annual Convention.
2008--“Two Heads Are Better Than One: Evaluating Joint Ventures for Distressed Assets,” IMN Symposium on Distressed Real Estate; “Investment in Ethnic Communities: A Compelling Opportunity for New Investment,” USC Gould School of Law 2008 Symposium on Real Estate Law & Business; “Joint Venture & Equity Solutions,” Distressed Real Estate Symposium.
2007--“Condominium Hotels – What Can Go Wrong and What to Do When It Does,” IMN Condominium Hotel Conference; “Critical Issues for 2007,” at the USC Gould School of Law Institute, Los Angeles County Bar Association Benjamin S. Crocker Symposium on Real Estate Law and Business.
Named Best Lawyers Los Angeles Leisure and Hospitality Law “Lawyer of the Year,” 2024
Named as one of the Most Influential Women Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal, 2017 and 2018
Top Women Lawyers in California, Daily Journal, 2016
Top 50 Development, Land Use and Municipal Infrastructure Lawyers, Daily Journal, 2014
Named One of SoCal’s Most Influential Women in Real Estate by Real Estate Southern California, 2000–2006
The Best Lawyers in America, 2006–2025
Named one of the Top Lawyers in Real Estate by the Los Angeles Daily Journal, August 2013
Named in “Who’s Who in Law: Angelenos to Know in Real Estate Law,” by the Los Angeles Business Journal, June 2013
Admitted to practice in California
Member, Urban Land Institute, 1987–2021 (Sustainable Development Council)
Member, Planning and Program Committees, USC Gould School of Law, Real Estate Law and Business Forum, 2007–2016
Member of the Board, SoCal Chapter, NAIOP, 2000–2009
Member, City of Los Angeles, Industrial Development Policy Advisory Committee, 2003, 2004
Member, Los Angeles County Child Care Advisory Board, 1989–1996
President, Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation, 1988–1993
Director, Alumnae Association of Smith College, 1985–1988
Trustee, Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1979–1981
Women Lawyers’ Association, President, 1979-1980; Board, 1973–1981
Co-author, “Force Majeure During a Pandemic: What You Need to Know,” NAIOP Development Magazine, Summer 2020.
Co-author, "Treatment of Condominium Hotels as Securities after Salemeh," Los Angeles Lawyer, January 2014.
University of California at Los Angeles, J.D.
Order of the Coif
Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review
Smith College, A.B.
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