1. law, govt and politics

INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY
Therese Maynard
Dana Warren
WILLIAM G. COSKRAN
PROFESSOR OF LAW
Faculty Director,
Business Law Practicum
CLINICAL PROFESSOR
OF LAW
Patrick J. McDonough
Director of the
Business Law Practicum
BA, summa cum laude, University of
California Irvine, Phi Beta Kappa
JD, University of California Los
Angeles, Order of the Coif
BS, with highest honors,
Montana State University
JD, Stanford Law School
Therese Maynard’s work spans a variety of topics in business
law, with notable expertise in the area of mergers & acquisitions
and securities law. An innovator in business law teaching,
Maynard has created Loyola’s Business Law Practicum and
serves as the current chair of the Association of American
Law Schools Section on Transactional Law and Skills. Before
joining the Loyola faculty, she practiced with Gibson Dunn.
Dana Warren has over 25 years of transactional law
experience. He spent his career in practice at Riordan &
McKinzie and Bingham McCutchen as a corporate/
securities lawyer specializing in acting as outside general
counsel to venture capital-backed private companies.
During the last seven years Warren practiced law, he was
listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Cases, Materials and Problems
(Aspen 3d ed.)
Business Planning: Financing the Start-up and Venture
Capital Financing (with Therese Maynard, Aspen 2d ed.)
Business Planning: Financing the Start-up and Venture
Capital Financing (with Dana Warren, Aspen 2d ed.)
Venture Capital Investment: Status and Trends, 7 OHIO
ST. ENTREPRENEURIAL BUS. L.J. 1 (2012)
919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Business Law Program
Loyola’s business law faculty represents a
wide range of expertise, research methods
and backgrounds in business and the law.
Pursuing innovative scholarship and
coursework creation, their research is at
the forefront of corporate and securities
law issues, and they provide substantive
and experiential opportunities for
students in business strategy, finance,
lawyering, and negotiation.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY
Corporate Law Concentration
Specialized Coursework
Offers a rigorous, unique approach to prepare
students to become transactional lawyers. After
graduating, a student who has participated in this
concentration has theoretical and substantive
knowledge, as well as critical hands-on experience.
In addition to traditional coursework such as Securities
Regulation and Mergers & Acquisitions, Loyola offers the
following specialized coursework:
Law & Entrepreneurship
Concentration
Combines the opportunity to take specialized
business law coursework with MBA coursework
in the Entrepreneurship Program at Loyola
Marymount’s Hilton School of Business.
Student placements include:
Bingham • Fenwick & West LLP
Gibson Dunn • Jones Day
Latham & Watkins LLP • Milbank Tweed
O’Melveny & Myers LLP • Orrick
Perkins Coie • Pillsbury
Sidley Austin LLP • Skadden
Stradling • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
“After seeing the Transactional
Negotiation Team students in action,
I was so impressed that I broke a
long-standing rule to not hire firstyear attorneys and offered one of
the contestants a job.”
— Brent Bradley, Partner, Cypress, LLP
Recent Scholarship
Business Planning
Professor Dana Warren
Through a series of simulated deals, this capstone course
allows students to review, draft, and comment on transactional
documents typical to an entrepreneurial setting, to prepare
client advice, and to master the lawyering skill of translating
business-speak into effective contract language and back again.
Business Strategy for Lawyers
Professor Michael Guttentag
Using business school cases and a series of hands-on
assignments, this course presents the fundamentals of
business strategy, including: frameworks for business
analysis, organizational and contractual responses to agency
problems, horizontal and vertical structures of firms, and
special topics in competitive strategy.
Corporate Governance Seminar
Professor Elizabeth Pollman
Using both theoretical and practical perspectives, this course
provides in-depth study of a series of corporate law and
governance topics, including: theories of the corporation,
corporate social responsibility, board composition and
structures, institutional investors, shareholder activism,
executive compensation, corporate political spending, the
financial crisis, and comparative corporate governance.
Corporate Finance
Professor Carlos Berdejó
Drawing upon fundamental principles of finance and employing
actual transactional documents, this course provides students
with the tools to interpret contractual provisions commonly found
in debt and preferred stock instruments and to understand how
such provisions impact issuers’ business and financial decisions.
Transactional Negotiation Team
Professor Dana Warren (Team Coach)
Through the structure of an intramural competition open to
all interested students, this experiential class gives students a
complex business problem and requires them to develop a
strategy for representing their assigned client, draft a term
sheet or agreement, and review and respond to drafts prepared
by students representing the other side of the prospective deal.
Each student has a minimum of five evaluated rounds of
negotiation, with immediate feedback from transactional
lawyers and opportunities for making revisions.
Carlos Berdejó
Michael Guttentag
Elizabeth Pollman
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW
AB, magna cum laude, Harvard
College
PROFESSOR OF LAW
John T. Gurash Fellow in Corporate
Law & Business
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW
AB, with distinction, Stanford University
JD, Yale Law School
AB, cum laude, Harvard College
PhD, Harvard University
MBA, with distinction, Harvard
Business School
Carlos Berdejó is an empiricist,
employing economic tools to further
our understanding of securities
regulation and how legal regimes
influence corporations’ financial
decisions. Berdejó’s doctoral work
focused on the interaction of law and
economics, in particular the impact of
judicial institutions on judges’
behavior. He practiced as a corporate
attorney in New York, representing
Latin American clients in various
types of financings and related
securities law matters.
Going Public After the JOBS Act, 76
OHIO ST. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2015)
Revisiting the Voting Prohibition in
Bond Workouts, 89 TUL. L. REV. __
(forthcoming 2015)
Crime, Punishment and Politics: An
Analysis of Political Cycles in
Criminal Sentencing (with Noam M.
Yuchtman), 95 REV. ECON. STATS.
741 (2013)
JD, Yale Law School
Michael Guttentag’s scholarship
focuses primarily on securities
regulation. He has used a variety of
methods to better understand how
financial markets should be regulated,
including conducting experiments
and developing mathematical
models. Prior to his career in
academia, he worked as an executive
in the public and private sectors,
where he held senior management
positions in the internet,
entertainment, and financial services
industries.
A New Light on Public Company
Political Spending Disclosure, 2014
COLUM. BUS. L. REV. __
(forthcoming 2014)
Patching a Hole in the JOBS Act:
How and Why to Rewrite the Rules
that Require Firms to Make Periodic
Public Disclosures, 88 IND. L.J. 151
(2013), to be reprinted in 46 SEC. L.
REV. (2014)
Protection from What? Justifications
for Investor Protection and the JOBS
Act, 13 U.C. DAVIS BUS. L.J. 207
(2013)
JD, with distinction, Stanford Law
School, Order of the Coif
Elizabeth Pollman’s award-winning
scholarship focuses on the entity
status and constitutional rights of
corporations, as well as on law and
entrepreneurship. Before joining the
Loyola faculty, Pollman was a fellow at
the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock
Center for Corporate Governance at
Stanford Law School. She previously
practiced as a transactional lawyer and
business litigator at Latham & Watkins
LLP in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.
The Derivative Nature of Corporate
Constitutional Rights (with Margaret
Blair), 56 WM. & MARY L. REV. __
(forthcoming 2015)
A Corporate Right to Privacy, 99
MINN. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2014)
Information Issues on Wall Street 2.0,
161 U. PA. L. REV. 179 (2012)
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON
LOYOLA’S BUSINESS LAW
PROGRAM CONTACT:
Professor Dana Warren
PATRICK J. MCDONOUGH
DIRECTOR OF THE BUSINESS
LAW PRACTICUM
[email protected] • 213.736.1066