Allan T. Marks

+1-213-892-4376
amarks@milbank.com
 
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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 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 California’s leading project finance lawyers, is consistently ranked in the top tier of transportation infrastructure lawyers nationally in Chambers USA and was recently named as a leading lawyer for projects by Chambers Latin America 2009.

Recent and notable energy transactions include:

  • 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 related transactions, representing together 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)







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Power, Energy & Utilities Experience

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North American Windpower

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Infrastructure Journal

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World Energy Magazine

Energy Politics and Economic Effects of the PTC
North American Windpower

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OGEL

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Project Finance International

Latin America Experience

Latin America Bio

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World Energy Magazine

Mexican Toll Roads -- Back to the Future
Project Finance International


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