California’s Top 50 Development Lawyers Transforming the State
LOS ANGELES, September 3, 2014 – Global Project Finance partner Allan T. Marks has been selected as one of California’s “Top 50 Development Lawyers” by the Daily Journal, a leading California legal publication. This year’s list honors California’s top attorneys whose work in the development arena significantly impacted projects that are helping to shape the transformation of cities.
The Daily Journal recognized Mr. Marks for his work as developer’s counsel on the second phase of the $1.1 billion Presidio Parkway public-private partnership highway project in San Francisco and also for his role as lenders’ special California counsel in the $300 million construction financing of the new Long Beach courthouse, which was recently completed. He also recently served as lenders’ counsel for the approximately $1 billion Port of Miami Access Tunnel project. The Daily Journal profile on Mr. Marks can be found here.
Mr. Marks is currently working on other significant infrastructure projects, including:
- Texas High-Speed Rail - developer’s counsel in connection with a high-speed bullet train that will connect Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. This high-profile project will allow travel between the two cities in under 90 minutes and will be the first privately developed high-speed rail line in the United States.
- Long Beach Civic Center –bidder’s counsel for new downtown Civic Center complex proposed for the City of Long Beach, California. This mixed-use redevelopment project, currently under active procurement by the City of Long Beach, will include a new City Hall, port headquarters, main library, hotel, commercial and residential space, as well as a revitalization of Lincoln Park.
- Santiago, Chile Metro Expansion – lender’s counsel in the bank and export credit financing to expand lines 3 and 6 of the Metro subway network in Santiago, Chile.
Mr. Marks is the founding Co-Chair of the State Bar of California Real Estate Section’s Subsection on Public Private Infrastructure and is also an adjunct professor at University of California, Berkeley where he teaches project finance at the law and business schools.
