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 transportation and energy 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 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.

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 (Boalt Hall), where he is also an adjunct professor of law. 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. He is also the founding co-chair of a new committee on public-private partnerships being formed by the State Bar of California.

Recent and notable transportation sector transactions include:

  • $1 billion development and financing of the Port of Miami Access Tunnel in Florida, named the 2009 “P3 Deal of the Year” by Project Finance Interntational and the 2009 “North America P3 Deal of the Year” and the 2009 “Global Deal of the Year” by Project Finance (lenders’ counsel”)

  • Work on a bid and proposed financing of the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 project in Vancouver, British Columbia (lenders' counsel)

  • $604 million acquisition financing of the Pocahontas Parkway in Virginia, which was named 2006 “Project Finance Deal of the Year (Americas)” by IFLR (lenders’ counsel)

  • Dual currency, dual tranche senior secured bond financing of the Autopista Central toll road in Santiago, Chile, named by Euromoney as “Best Project Finance Deal” for 2003

  • Mx$2.2 billion (US$200 million) bond financing of the Monterrey-Cadereyta toll road in Mexico, named “Infrastructure Deal of the Year” by Project Finance magazine (issuer’s counsel)

  • Acquisition, development and subsequent $773 million public/private co-financing of the SR 125 (South Bay Expressway) toll road project in California, named Project Finance magazine’s "North American Transport Deal Of The Year" for 2003 (sponsor’s counsel)

  • $213 million bond financing for the privatization and expansion of the Santiago, Chile International Airport (underwriters’ counsel)














 

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Transportation Infrastructure Experience

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


Power, Energy & Utilities Experience

Power, Energy & Utilities Bio

Financing Energy Projects – Adapting to Regulatory Change and Volatile Markets
Presentation to The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Mexico Offers Diverse Opportunities for Investment in Renewable Energy
World Energy Magazine

Energy Politics and Economic Effects of the PTC
North American Windpower

Lost in Translation
The Deal

Updraft
The Deal

Investing in Power Generation Plants Is New Lure for Private Equity Firms
The Journal of Private Equity 

Financing Implications for LNG Projects
OGEL
 

Latin America Experience

Latin America Bio

Mexico Offers Diverse Opportunities for Investment in Renewable Energy
World Energy Magazine

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


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