SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* DEGIORGIO KENNETH D (Last) (First) (Middle) 1 FIRST AMERICAN WAY (Street) SANTA ANA CA 92707 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol First American Financial Corp [ FAF ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) Executive Vice President
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 03/04/2014
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	03/04/2014		F		5,381(1)	D	$26.57	351,106	D(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)
Common Stock								122.718	I	By 401(k) Plan Trust(10)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. Payment of tax liability by withholding securities incident to the vesting of restricted stock units.

2. Includes 9,870 unvested Restricted Stock Units ("RSUs') acquired in a pro rata distribution by The First American Corporation ("FAC") on account of an original grant of 19,620 FAC RSUs, of which 19,737 were unvested at the time of the distribution and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment. The vesting schedule of the FAC RSUs, vesting in five equal annual increments commencing 3/3/11, the first anniversary of the grant, has been carried over to the issuer RSUs.

3. Includes 70,786 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to an original grant of 99,290 performance based RSUs and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment, which vest in three equal annual increments commencing on 6/3/13, the first business day following the third anniversary of the grant, pursuant to the Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement filed as Exhibit 10(i) to the issuer's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010.

4. Includes 7,572 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to an original grant of 28,594 RSUs and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment, vesting in four equal annual increments commencing 3/3/12, the first anniversary of the grant.

5. Includes 11,339 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to an original grant of 21,464 RSUs and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment, vesting in four equal annual increments commencing 3/31/12, the first anniversary of the grant.

6. Includes 24,633 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to an original grant of 47,434 RSUs and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment, vesting in four equal annual increments commencing 3/1/13, the first anniversary of the grant made on 2/29/12.

7. Includes 42,969 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to an original grant of 56,165 RSUs and shares acquired through automatic dividend reinvestment, vesting in four equal annual increments commencing 3/4/14, the first anniversary of the grant.

8. Includes 37,404 unvested RSUs acquired pursuant to a grant vesting in four equal annual increments commencing 2/27/2015, the first anniversary of the grant.

9. The reporting person has deferred receipt of shares underlying certain vested RSUs.

10. Amount shown consists of shares contributed by issuer as company match, shares purchased for the reporting person's account and shares acquired through automatic reinvestment of dividends paid as reported in most recent account statement in transactions exempt under rules 16a-3(f)(1)(i)(B) and 16b-3(c).

	/s/ Greg L. Smith, Attorney-in-Fact for Kenneth D. DeGiorgio	03/06/2014
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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