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USC Gould is a top-ranked law school with a 120-year history and reputation for academic excellence. We are located on the beautiful 228-acre USC University Park Campus, just south of downtown Los Angeles.
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Warren Loui
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Lecturer in Law
Email: wloui@law.usc.edu699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA
Last Updated: August 25, 2020
Warren Loui is a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP in Los Angeles. He has more than 35 years of experience representing lenders and issuers in financings and restructurings, with particular experience in acquisition financings and the automobile and entertainment industries.
His practice also includes structured financings, and he has done pro bono work for two social enterprise loan funds. In addition, Loui assists investors and companies on various corporate transactions.
Among his list of awards and accolades, Loui is listed in the International Financial Law Review’s 1000 World’s Leading Lawyers, as well as a Super Lawyer by Los Angeles Magazine for banking. He also currently serves or has served on the boards of numerous professional and community organizations.
Loui frequently speaks about the legal issues affecting his practice at various industry seminars and conferences. Some of his engagements include National Asian Pacific American Bar Association conventions and National Asian American conferences on Law and Policy, the Inaugural California Diversity and Leadership Conference, Asia Securitization Conferences, and the ADB Conference on Asian Debt Restructuring. He also is a lecturer in law at the USC Gould School of Law School, where he lectures on secured transactions.
Loui earned his JD and MBA from Stanford University, where he was associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. He also holds a BS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Loui is admitted to the state bars of California and New York.
FACULTY IN THE NEWS
CNN
April 7, 2021
Re: Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery wrote and op-ed in favor of the Biden administration's plan to increase the corporate tax rate. "There's a time for everything, including to tax and spend," he wrote. "Jeff Bezos gets it."
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Michael Simkovic
February, 2021
"Income Taxes and Work Hours," University of Virginia Law and Economics Workshop, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA.
Dorothy S. Lund
February, 2021
“The Corporate Governance Machine” (with Elizabeth Pollman), 122 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2022)
Michael Simkovic
February, 2021
“Income Taxes & Work Hours,” Florida Tax Review.