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Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

(Colony NorthStar, Inc., as successor by merger to NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc.)

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

On March 3, 2015, NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc. (the “Company”) filed a registration statement on Form S-3, Registration No. 333-202454 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), to register the sale from time to time of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares representing shares of preferred stock, debt securities or warrant entitling the holders to purchase common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares or debt securities (collectively, the “Registered Securities”).

The Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to deregister all of the Registered Securities registered for sale that were not sold pursuant to the Registration Statement as of the date of this Post-Effective Amendment. The Company hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and deregisters all of the Registered Securities registered for sale under the Registration Statement.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, State of California, on January 10, 2017.


COLONY NORTHSTAR, INC. as successor by merger to NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc.

/s/ Darren J. Tangen
Name:		Darren J. Tangen
Title:		Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.