-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BK30e1sRy45+zOWHGwOS3uRTz+REfhcEwuiHDk7cVaO2hvOK0YHZNXcaKeOHQkvZ MSSc+EsLi962liHlhzxrfw== 0001123292-09-000846.txt : 20090929 0001123292-09-000846.hdr.sgml : 20090929 20090929144908 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001123292-09-000846 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20090929 FILED AS OF DATE: 20090929 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20090929 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Somers John A. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001472325 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34456 FILM NUMBER: 091092623 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1560 GULF BLVD. STREET 2: #306 CITY: CLEARWATER STATE: FL ZIP: 33767 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Colony Financial, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001467076 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS [6798] IRS NUMBER: 270419483 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O COLONY FINANCIAL, INC. STREET 2: 2450 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR CITY: SANTA MONICA STATE: CA ZIP: 90404 BUSINESS PHONE: 310-282-8820 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O COLONY FINANCIAL, INC. STREET 2: 2450 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR CITY: SANTA MONICA STATE: CA ZIP: 90404 3 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0203 3 2009-09-29 0 0001467076 Colony Financial, Inc. CLNY 0001472325 Somers John A. C/O COLONY FINANCIAL, INC. 2450 BROADWAY, 6TH FLOOR SANTA MONICA CA 90404 1 0 0 0 No securities beneficially owned 0 D Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ David A. Palame, Attorney-in-Fact 2009-09-29 EX-24 2 somerspoa.htm Unassociated Document
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Darren J. Tangen, Ronald M. Sanders and David A. Palamé, signing singly, and with full power of substitution, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
 
(1)           prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;
 
(2)           execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of Colony Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in connection with the undersigned’s ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company;
 
(3)           do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, or other form or report, and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
 
(4)           take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned.
 
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 14th day of September, 2009.


 
/s/ John A. Somers
 
Name: John A. Somers



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