Allan T. Marks

+1-213-892-4376
amarks@milbank.com
 
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Allan Marks is a partner in the Global Project Finance and Latin America Practice Groups of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. As part of a broad corporate and finance practice, he has represented companies involved in power, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, technology, real estate, and other industries.

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, telecommunications 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 cross-border financing issues, infrastructure investments, deregulation and emerging markets. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.

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 transactions in Latin America include:

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

  • 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)

  • $2.5 billion project financing to develop the 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 (lenders’ counsel)

  • $1.36 billion acquisition by Telefónica Móviles of Mexican wireless telco Pegaso Telecommunicaciones S.A. de C.V. (seller’s counsel)

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












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Latin America Experience

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

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

Transportation Infrastructure Experience

Transportation Infrastructure Bio

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


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