Jim Loss is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, venture capital financings, public offerings and private placements. Jim has represented both strategic and financial buyers and sellers in a wide range of transactions across many industry groups and has extensive experience in corporate “carve-out” transactions.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1980, Jim studied law in Germany under a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service from 1980 to 1981, and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Malcolm M. Lucas, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, from 1981 to 1983. Jim joined the Los Angeles-based law firm of Riordan & McKinzie in 1983. Riordan & McKinzie merged with Bingham McCutchen in 2003.