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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. 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 Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Recent and notable transactions include:
Development and financing of several wind power plants in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, Mexico and elsewhere.
$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)
$43.5 million construction, term loan and working capital financing for GreenHunter Biofuels, Inc. for the construction and operation of a 105 million gpy biodiesel refinery, blending and terminaling facility in Houston, Texas (lender's counsel)
$113 million debt financing for the construction of a 110 million gpy ethanol plant by Arkalon Energy, LLC in southwest Kansas (lenders' counsel)
$160 million taxable and tax-exempt bond financing of EnerTech's biosolids processing and disposal facility in Rialto, California (investors' 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)
Representation of several private equity funds in their investments, acquisitions and dispositions in the energy sector.
$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)
$120 million private placement of senior secured notes to finance Macquarie District Energy's acquisition of urban heating and cooling facilities in Chicago and Las Vegas from Exelon (investors' 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)
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 (Boalt Hall). He is ranked as one of California's leading project finance lawyers and in the top tier of transportation infrastructure lawyers nationally in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA. | 