Allan Marks Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Partner and member of the Milbank’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group, as well as the firm’s Private Equity, Renewable Energy, ESG & Sustainability, Latin America, and Global Risk & National Security practices.Over more than 30 years, I have handled transactions in North and South America, Asia and Europe with an aggregate value of more than $100 billion. My practice encompasses project finance and development, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, acquisition finance, capital markets and private placements, international and cross-border business transactions, public-private partnerships, joint ventures, green bonds and sustainability-linked securities, restructurings, construction, banking and regulatory matters.I advise sponsors, investors, lenders, underwriters, governments, and other sophisticated institutional clients on innovative financing structures, contractual risk allocation, and legal and commercial strategies to create value, reduce risk, and enhance resilience of complex infrastructure projects worldwide with an emphasis on clean and renewable energy and transitional technologies.

New York, Us

CCSI is a joint center of the Law and Climate Schools at Columbia University. CCSI collaborates with governments, investors and communities to achieve climate goals and engages with political, economic and regulatory systems to reshape policies, laws and private sector approaches to sustainable development. We draw on the expertise of faculty and other experts in business, law, engineering, and other fields. Our team incorporates a diverse range of regional, legal, thematic, and sectoral expertise. We try to anticipate and stay ahead of emerging trends and challenges, and to approach our research and engagements holistically, embracing and engaging with complex systems. We take an iterative approach that combines rigorous research with technical support and training programs that help partners translate vision into action. CCSI’s work proceeds from a conviction that the world needs to mobilize trillions of dollars in new investment to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and accelerate the energy transition. Ambition is just as important as pragmatism. Sustainable solutions need to be just and equitable. With this in mind, we work to identify and realize new pathways to progress for governments, financial institutions, and global businesses.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Adjunct faculty member at the UC Berkeley School of Law and (previously) the Haas School of Business, teaching courses on Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance and on Structuring and Negotiating Complex Financial Transactions.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Taught "Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance" in both the full-time MBA and the EWMBA programs at Berkeley Haas from Spring 2008 through Spring 2020. This interdisciplinary course covered key financial, commercial, legal, economic, technology and policy issues affecting the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects, with special emphasis on risk management and valuation issues, capital sources, project development, and investments in alternative energy. These topics were discussed using practical, real-world case studies of transactions in renewable energy, toll roads, rail projects, water systems, airports, natural resources, and large entertainment facilities.Business students (together with graduate students from the law, public policy and engineering schools at Berkeley) explored key risks and incentives to mobilizing capital to meet the growing demand for clean power and critical infrastructure. My students gained an understanding of the following concepts:• how commercial and financial interests, technological innovation, regulation, private contracts and market factors dynamically interrelate• how to optimize and analyze financing structures, leverage and investor return• how various project risks are identified, allocated, mitigated and priced, and the roles of contracts, governance, hedges and insurance products in managing and reducing risk• how regulatory incentives and public policy choices either curtail or facilitate particular investment opportunities and technologies, often in unintended ways• how to approach tradeoffs between short- and long-term value creation and liquidity, maximizing debt capacity while preserving optionality, and competing stakeholder interests• how to handle asymmetric information in transactions efficiently and ethically The MBA course was also cross-listed for JD and LLM students at the UC Berkeley School of Law in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, and from 2011 through 2013.

J.D.

B.A., International Studies

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