Jamie Clark - Los Angeles, CA
Attorney at O'Connor Cochran LLP
Corporate Restructuring Lawyers in Los Angeles, CA
515 South Flower Street 18th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071
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Los Angeles Corporate Restructuring Lawyer
Updated: 03/02/2026
Areas of Practice
- Corporate Restructuring
- Bankruptcy
- Finance
- Business Law
Attorney Information
Overview
Jamie is a complex finance, workouts and Internet lawyer who also serves as General Counsel for OASIS, one of the largest global open data standards organizations.
He began his practice as a corporate restructuring/bankruptcy lawyer with Shearman & Sterling at 53 Wall Street in New York. He represented banks and technology companies in corporate workouts, finance & acquisitions transactions throughout the 1990’s; and handled bankruptcies and distressed real estate resolutions through the last downturn, including foreclosing on San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel (which, by the way, is much nicer today, and has a great lobby bar — proving something about the efficient allocation of assets after a bankruptcy).
While in private practice, due to his early work with high-tech clients on Internet laws, he served two terms as chair of the American Bar Association’s business law subcommittee on electronic commerce, and co-editor of the business process standards for the first successful global e-commerce standards project (ISO 15000), and chairman of its Joint Coordinating Committee. Jamie served for five years as OASIS’ Director of Standards before taking over as their general counsel, where he is responsible for intellectual property, licensing, strategic partnerships and privacy and cybersecurity programs. Before that, he was vice president and general counsel of a healthcare e-commerce company, and a corporate & finance partner in a Los Angeles law firm.
Among other things, he has served on the European Commission’s ICT Rolling Plan and Priority Plan Task Force (for its multistakeholder panel on open data standards); as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for negotiation of the UN Electronic Communications Convention and Model Law on Electronic Commerce; as program staff lead for NSTIC’s IDESG identity project; and on the expert staff for ISE.gov’s cybersecurity law enforcement and counterterrorism data interoperability project. Jamie is a frequent speaker and author on Internet, e-commerce and privacy laws as well as complex finance transactions and real estate workouts. He holds J.D. and B.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota and is based in Los Angeles.
Education
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Legal Education
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University of Minnesota Law School,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1988
J.D.
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University of Minnesota Law School,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1988
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Non Legal Education
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University of Minnesota
B.S.
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University of Minnesota
Current Employment Position(s)
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Attorney
Classes and Seminars
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Panel Chair, "Practical Policy for Open Standards and Open Source in Europe, "EU Commission DG Enterprise /European Patent Office (Brussels, November 2010)
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Speaker, “Ontologies, Patents and Licenses: Open Ontology Repository Project,” ONTOLOG (September 2010.)
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Speaker, "Global Cloud Computing and SOA Standards in China," CESI, - (Beijing, May 2010)
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Speaker, “Security & Privacy in the Smart Grid,” Clasma Connectivity Week, - (Santa Clara, May 2010.)
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Panel Chair, "Public-Private e-Business Standards: e-Commerce & Logistics," ISO/IEC/ITU/OASIS/UN (Geneva, September 2008.)
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Speaker, "Grid Com Forum: US Smart Grid Standards," IEC (Santa Clara, February 2010.)
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Speaker, "2007 Beijing Open Standards Conference: Global Standards Cooperation," Changfeng Alliance (Beijing, December 2007.)
- Speaker, "Making Sense of Business Process Patents," ABA Business Law Section (2002.)
Pro Bono Activities
- Board of Directors, Pierpont Bay Yacht Club, (2010 - current.)
- Board of Directors, Recreational Boaters of California (2015 - current)
Published Works
Articles
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“Judicial Responses to SPE Structures: Less Than Meets the Eye” in Commercial Real Estate Financing 2010 (Practicing Law Institute 2010.)
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“Take it to the Bank: Steering Transactions Around The Devil’s Triangle of Bank Failure," 32 Los Angeles Lawyer 31 (October 2009.)
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“Securitized Mortgage Loans," in CEB California Real Estate Finance Practice, Chapter 10 (2006 - 2025; updated annually)
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“Technical Standards & E-Commerce Contracts: Beyond the Four Corners,” 59 Business Lawyer 435 (ABA 2003.)
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“Securitizable vs. Traditional Mortgage Loans,” 17 The Review of Banking and Financial Services 269A (Standard & Poor’s, December 2001.)
Bar Admissions
- California, 1992
Other Affiliations
- Electronic Commerce Subcommittee, American Bar Association’s Business Law Section Committee on Cyberspace Law (Chairman, 2000-2003)
- Association of Corporate Counsel, Member, 2009 - Current
- U.S. Delegation, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), WG IV on Electronic Commerce (global e-signature treaties and model laws), 2002-2015
- Management Group for the ISO-IEC-ITU Memo. of Understanding on e-Business Standards (2004 - current.)
- Interoperability Review Board, Kantara Initiative (electronic identity management) (2009 - current.)
- World Wide Web Coalition (W3C) Advisory Committee (2005 - current.)
- US HHS HITSP Harmonization planning committee (for its e-healthcare standards program) (2006 - 2007.)
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