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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: Development and financing of the proposed Port of Miami Access Tunnel in Florida (lenders' counsel - in progress) Work on a bid and proposed financing of the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 project in Vancouver, British Columbia (lenders' counsel - in progress) $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)
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:
Development and financing of the proposed Port of Miami Access Tunnel in Florida (lenders' counsel - in progress)
Work on a bid and proposed financing of the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 project in Vancouver, British Columbia (lenders' counsel - in progress)
$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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