EXHIBIT 8.2
May 3, 2011
AMB Property Corporation
Pier 1, Bay 1
San Francisco, California 94111
355 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90071-1560
Tel: +1.213.485.1234 Fax: +1.213.891.8763
www.lw.com
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Re: AMB Property Corporation
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as tax counsel to AMB Property Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the
Company), in connection with the filing by the Company and AMB Property, L.P. of a
registration statement on Form S-4 on May 3, 2011 (together with the documents incorporated by
reference therein, the Registration Statement) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the Commission) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
Act).
You have requested our opinion concerning certain of the federal income tax considerations relating
to the Company. This opinion is based on various facts and assumptions, including the facts set
forth in the Registration Statement concerning the business, assets and governing documents of the
Company and its subsidiaries. We have also been furnished with, and with your consent have relied
upon, certain representations made by the Company and its subsidiaries with respect to certain
factual matters through a certificate of an officer of the Company, dated as of the date hereof
(the Officers Certificate).
In our capacity as tax counsel to the Company, we have made such legal and factual examinations and
inquiries, including an examination of originals or copies certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction of such documents, corporate records and other instruments
as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for purposes of this opinion. For the purposes of our
opinion, we have not made an independent investigation or audit of the facts set forth in the above
referenced documents or in the Officers Certificate. In addition, in rendering this opinion we
have assumed the truth and accuracy of all representations and statements made to us which are
qualified as to knowledge or belief, without regard to such qualification. In our examination, we
have assumed the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the genuineness of all
signatures thereon, the legal capacity of natural persons executing such documents and the
conformity to authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies.
We are opining herein only as to the federal income tax laws of the United States, and we express
no opinion with respect to the applicability thereto, or the effect thereon, of other federal
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laws or the laws of any state or other jurisdiction, or as to any matters of municipal law or the
laws of any other local agencies within any state.
Based on such facts, assumptions and representations, it is our opinion that the statements set
forth in the Registration Statement under the captions Material United States Federal Income Tax
ConsequencesAMBs Qualification as a REIT and Material United States Federal Income Tax
ConsequencesTaxation of Holders of AMB Common Stock, insofar as they purport to summarize
certain provisions of the statutes or regulations referred to therein, are accurate summaries in
all material respects.
No opinion is expressed as to any matter not discussed herein.
This opinion is rendered to you as of the date of this letter, and we undertake no obligation to
update this opinion subsequent to the date hereof. This opinion is based on various statutory
provisions, regulations promulgated thereunder and interpretations thereof by the Internal Revenue
Service and the courts having jurisdiction over such matters, all of which are subject to change
either prospectively or retroactively. Any such change may affect the conclusions stated herein.
Also, any variation or difference in the facts from those set forth in the Registration Statement
or the Officers Certificate may affect the conclusions stated herein. As described in the
Registration Statement, the Companys qualification and taxation as a REIT depends
upon the Companys ability to meet the various qualification tests imposed under the Code,
including through actual annual operating results, asset composition, distribution levels and
diversity of stock ownership, the results of which have not been and will not be reviewed by Latham
& Watkins LLP. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that the actual results of the Companys
operation for any particular taxable year will satisfy such requirements.
This opinion is rendered only to you and is solely for your benefit in connection with the
transaction described above. This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or
furnished to, assigned to, quoted to or relied upon by any other person, firm or other entity for
any purpose without our prior written consent, which may be granted or withheld in our discretion,
provided that this opinion may be relied upon by persons entitled to rely on it pursuant to
applicable provisions of federal securities law.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and to
the reference to our firm name in the Registration Statement under the caption Legal Matters. In
giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose
consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules or regulations of the Commission
promulgated thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Latham & Watkins LLP