Jamie Clark

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 JD and BSC degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is based in Los Angeles.