Warren Loui

Warren Loui is a partner in Winston & Strawn's Los Angeles office whose practice focuses on corporate finance, including corporate lending, securitization, and capital raising for emerging companies. He is a lecturer at the USC Gould School of Law teaching Secured Transactions.

Loui represents lenders and issuers in financings and restructurings, which have included acquisition financings up to $3.7 billion. He has particular experience in acquisition financings and the auto, entertainment, gaming and life settlement industries.

His practice is also highly concentrated on structured financings and other securitizations. His work in this area includes representation of issuers or placement agents in securitizing assets in transactions valued up to $6.5 billion, including collateralized debt obligations, prime and sub-prime automobile loans, automobile leases, dealer floor plan loans, trade receivables, Australian residential mortgages, and commercial mortgages. In addition, Loui assists investors and companies in other corporate transactions, such as capital raising for emerging middle market companies. These matters have included representing a cell phone peripherals company in its potential sale; an investor in the first-round financing of Broadcom Corporation; a Broadway theater organization in the financing of a Chinese joint venture; formation and financing work for an open-source software incubator and a 3-D animation company; and corporate planning for a security screening company.

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

The Tribune
December 6, 2018
Re: Elyn Saks

Elyn Saks was quoted in an article exploring the economic and social costs that occur due to the mistreatment of persons suffering from mental illness. "Thirty years ago, I was given a diagnosis of Schizophrenia," she said. "My prognosis was ‘grave’: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, or get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a day room with other people debilitated by mental illness.” The author of the article went on to discuss the ways that people dealing with mental health issues should be cared for, arguing that they "have the right to live with dignity just as anyone with diabetes or hypertension or heart disease. Mental illness, after all, is an illness like any other."

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Sam Erman
September, 2018

Sam Erman wrote an op-ed, "Devastation Without Representation in Puerto Rico," posted to The Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2018.

Gregory Keating
September, 2018

"Principles of Risk Imposition and the Priority of Avoiding Harm," Revus [Online] (2018).

Jody David Armour
September, 2018

"Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals," American Journal of Criminal Law 45 (2018): 203.