Allan T. Marks

amarks@milbank.com

+1-213-892-4376 (T)
+1-213-892-4739 (F)

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Los Angeles, CA 90017
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Education
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, J.D.
Johns Hopkins University, B.A.

Admissions
California

Allan Marks is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm’s Project Finance Group and Latin America Practice Group.  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:

  • El Arrayán wind farm project financing in Chile
  • Port of Miami Access Tunnel in Florida, named the 2009 “P3 Deal of the Year” by Project Finance International, 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. 

Allan T. Marks

amarks@milbank.com

+1-213-892-4376 (T)

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Partner

Education
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, J.D.
Johns Hopkins University, B.A.

Admissions
California

Allan Marks is a partner in the Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. 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 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 and alternative energy, cross-border financing issues, infrastructure investments, deregulation and emerging markets.

For nearly 20 years, Mr. Marks has worked on the development, financing and acquisition of energy projects using most types of energy sources, including natural gas, coal, wind, solar (both PV and thermal), geothermal, biomass, hydro, waste coal, landfill gas, biofuels, municipal solid waste, nuclear, and pump storage technologies, as well as LNG terminals, upstream oil and gas facilities, manufacturing plants for solar panels and polysilicon, and facilities for the treatment or recycling of wastewater and solid waste streams. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and the Americas, many of which have been named "Deals of the Year" by Euromoney, Project Finance, Infrastructure Finance, and other leading publications.

Mr. Marks received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley Law School. 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.  He is ranked as one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Chambers Latin America.

Recent and notable energy transactions include:

  • Private placement of approximately $120 million in notes in connection with the leveraged lease financing for Pattern Energy's Hatchet Ridge wind project in Burney, California (investors’ counsel)
  • Representation of the US Department of Energy in connection with a financing under the Loan Guarantee Program for Kahuku Wind Power, LLC, a subsidiary of First Wind Holdings, LLC, of the  company’s 30-MW wind generation project in Oahu, Hawaii
  • Development and financing of wind power plants in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New York, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Mexico and elsewhere, including all aspects of project financing and development, turbine procurement and financing, energy hedges, and other transactions, representing well over US$1 billion in new investment (counsel to lenders or project sponsors)
  • Representation of equity investors in  M&A transactions for the purchase or sale of power generation facilities or other energy projects in California, Colorado, Illinois, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere
  • Financing, through a private placement of Luxembourg-listed securities, of a new hydroelectric facility in Puebla, Mexico.
  • Construction, term loan and working capital financing for the construction and operation of a 105 million gpy biodiesel refinery, blending and terminaling facility in Houston, Texas (lender’s counsel)
  • Project financing for the construction of a 110 million gpy ethanol plant in southwest Kansas (lenders’ counsel)
  • Taxable and tax-exempt bond financing of a biosolids processing and disposal facility in Rialto, California (investors’ counsel)
  • Private placement of senior secured notes to finance the acquisition of urban heating and cooling facilities in Chicago and Las Vegas (investors’ counsel)
  • Bond financing for the largest holding company of waste-to-energy plants in the United States (underwriter's counsel)

Allan T. Marks

amarks@milbank.com

+1-213-892-4376 (T)

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Partner

Education
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, J.D.
Johns Hopkins University, B.A.

Admissions
California

Allan Marks is a partner in the Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. 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 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 and alternative energy, cross-border financing issues, infrastructure investments, deregulation and emerging markets.

For nearly 20 years, Mr. Marks has worked on the development, financing and acquisition of energy projects using most types of energy sources, including natural gas, coal, wind, solar (both PV and thermal), geothermal, biomass, hydro, waste coal, landfill gas, biofuels, municipal solid waste, nuclear, and pump storage technologies, as well as LNG terminals, upstream oil and gas facilities, manufacturing plants for solar panels and polysilicon, and facilities for the treatment or recycling of wastewater and solid waste streams. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and the Americas, many of which have been named "Deals of the Year" by Euromoney, Project Finance, Infrastructure Finance, and other leading publications.

Mr. Marks received a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley Law School. 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.  He is ranked as one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Chambers Latin America.

Recent and notable energy transactions include:

Private placement of approximately $120 million in notes in connection with the leveraged lease financing for Pattern Energy's Hatchet Ridge wind project in Burney, California (investors’ counsel)

Representation of the U.S. Department of Energy in connection with a financing under the Loan Guarantee Program for Kahuku Wind Power, LLC, a subsidiary of First Wind Holdings, LLC, of the  company’s 30-MW wind generation project in Oahu, Hawaii

Development and financing of wind power plants in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New York, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Mexico and elsewhere, including all aspects of project financing and development, turbine procurement and financing, energy hedges, and other transactions, representing well over US$1 billion in new investment (counsel to lenders or project sponsors)

Representation of equity investors in  M&A transactions for the purchase or sale of power generation facilities or other energy projects in California, Colorado, Illinois, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere

Financing, through a private placement of Luxembourg-listed securities, of a new hydroelectric facility in Puebla, Mexico.

Construction, term loan and working capital financing for the construction and operation of a 105 million gpy biodiesel refinery, blending and terminaling facility in Houston, Texas (lender’s counsel)

Project financing for the construction of a 110 million gpy ethanol plant in southwest Kansas (lenders’ counsel)

Taxable and tax-exempt bond financing of a biosolids processing and disposal facility in Rialto, California (investors’ counsel)

Private placement of senior secured notes to finance the acquisition of urban heating and cooling facilities in Chicago and Las Vegas (investors’ counsel)

Bond financing for the largest holding company of waste-to-energy plants in the United States (underwriter's counsel)