Allan T. Marks
Partner, Milbank’s Global Project Finance Group and Latin America Practice Group

Allan Marks is a partner in Milbank’s Global Project Finance Group and Latin America Practice Group and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. He joined the firm in 1990.

Primary Focus & Experience
Mr. Marks routinely represents developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects worldwide, with special expertise in the energy, infrastructure and transportation sectors. He has participated in numerous project financings, acquisitions, restructurings, securities offerings and private placements for a variety of sophisticated institutional clients. He speaks and publishes frequently on renewable energy, public-private partnerships, cross-border financing issues, infrastructure investments, deregulation and emerging markets. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.

His recent representations include:

• Port of Miami Access Tunnel in Florida, named the 2009 “P3 Deal of the Year” by Project Finance Interntational, the 2009 “North America P3 Deal of the Year” and the 2009 “Global Deal of the Year” by Project Finance, and shortlisted as a “Deal of the Decade” by Infrastructure Journal
• Pocahontas Parkway in Virginia, which was named 2006 “Project Finance Deal of the Year (Americas)” by IFLR
• Hatchet Ridge wind project leveraged lease financing
• Kahuku Wind Project financing for U.S. Department of Energy in Hawaii
• Autopista Central toll road in Santiago, Chile, named by Euromoney as “Best Project Finance Deal” for 2003
• Monterrey-Cadereyta toll road in Mexico, named “Infrastructure Deal of the Year” by Project Finance Magazine
• SR 125 (South Bay Expressway) toll road project in California, named Project Finance magazine’s “North American Transport Deal Of The Year” for 2003
• Barracuda & Caratinga oil and gas fields in Brazil, which received awards from Latin Finance and Global Finance magazines, was named “Project Finance Deal of the Year” for 2000 by Project Finance, Infrastructure Journal, PFI Yearbook 2001 and Infrastructure Finance Magazine, and was ranked “One of the Top Deals of the Decade” by PFI Magazine in 2002
• Macquarie District Energy’s acquisition of urban heating and cooling facilities in Chicago and Las Vegas from Exelon
• Santiago, Chile International Airport privatization

Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Marks is consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Chambers Latin America. He is an adjunct professor of law at University of California, Berkeley Law School, where he teaches a course on Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance, and is also an adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He has given lectures at Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) and the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. He was previously an adjunct lecturer for the post-graduate program in Derecho de Empresa at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.

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