Los Angeles Business Journal

Almost all investment banking and finance boutiques in town are founded by seasoned professionals who decided to cash in on good reputations and hang out their own shingles. Take Jim Freedman, at Barrington Associates, who earned his stripes at The Foothill Group Inc., or Michael...

Investment banker Lorne Goldberg has just turned 30, but the founder of West Los Angeles-based West Coast Capital LLC has recently engineered a couple of bigger deals of the type usually associated with the more-established investment banking shops. He raised $18 million for Los Angeles-based...

In business about a year-and-a-half and just 28 years old, nevertheless Lorne Goldberg has raised $18.5 million for local companies needing growth capital. He likes to specialize in smaller situations, where $1 million to $5 million is needed to fuel growth. “This is a real...