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Kent Swig and 44 Wall Street[/caption]
The majority owners of 44 Wall Street have asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by affiliates of developers Kent Swig and Zamir Equities principal Asher Zamir, who claim to own a minority stake in the Financial District office tower formerly known as the Bank of America building. In the suit, filed November 2012 in New York State Supreme Court, Swig and Zamir claim that two entities—listed in court documents as New 44 Wall Street LLC and Kommersiella Fastigheter in NY 3 Corp—froze them out of a stake in the 23-story, 289,049-square-foot property. Swig—the president of Swig Equities and co-owner of Terra Holdings, the parent company of brokerages Brown Harris Stevens and Halstead Property— invested $3.5 million dollars and had a 12.2 percent stake in the initial partnership, according to court documents. [more]
