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Levin and Loui join Winston & Strawn in L.A.

By Richard Binder

Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that C. James Levin and Warren Loui have joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as partners. Levin joins Winston from O?Melveny & Myers LLP, where he was a partner in and former co-chair of the firm?s M&A/Private Equity practices. Loui comes to Winston from Mayer Brown LLP, where he was a partner in its banking and finance department, and the Los Angeles Finance practice leader.

Levin has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as private companies in their acquisitions and business dispositions, and has advised many prominent investment banking firms. Loui?s representation of lenders and issuers includes acquisition financings of up to $3.7 billion, and structured financings and other securitizations in transactions valued up to $6 billion, including some of the first securitizations of non-performing loans and life settlements, the first securitization of electronic automobile receivables, and the first securitization under the Federal Reserve?s Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility.

Levin earned his J.D. from Northwestern University, cum laude, where he was a member of the Northwestern Law Review. He also earned an M.M. from Northwestern University, and a B.A. from DePauw University. Loui earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. He also has an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).