Allan Marks is a Lecturer at both the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches Structuring & Negotiating Complex Financial Transactions, and the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches Energy & Infrastructure Finance and is Affiliated Faculty at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Marks is also a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of Columbia University’s Law and Climate schools. He previously taught Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance at the University of California, Berkeley for twelve years at both the Law School and the Haas School of Business, and he taught a course on project finance in the post-graduate program in Derecho de Empresa at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.
As a lawyer at Milbank LLP for over 30 years, he was a partner in the firm’s Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group and member of the Private Equity, Renewable Energy, Latin America, and Global Risk & National Security practices. He has handled complex transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe with an aggregate value of over $100 billion. Marks is one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers with deep expertise across multiple sectors: power and renewable energy, transportation, water supply and water treatment, airports, rail, port terminals, alternative fuels, social infrastructure, and telecommunications and digital infrastructure. Focused on energy and infrastructure project finance and development, his practice encompassed international and cross-border transactions, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition finance, capital markets and private placements, public-private partnerships, joint ventures, restructurings, construction, banking, insurance and regulatory matters, and a range of commercial transactions.
He advises boards of directors, senior executives, bankers, fund managers and other organizations on risk mitigation and corporate strategy, particularly in connection with international investment, the energy transition, renewable energy, innovative clean technologies, geopolitics, climate risks, resilience and sustainability.
Marks is a Contributor to Forbes. He created and hosted the Law, Policy & Markets podcast and speaks and publishes frequently on energy, infrastructure, business strategy, financial markets, climate change, public policy, regulatory trends, and international transactions. He has been interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, POLITICO Pro, CNN Business, Bloomberg, S&P Global Market Intelligence, and other media outlets.
Marks was for eleven years the founding co-chair of the State Bar of California’s Subsection on Public-Private Infrastructure. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and served on Law360‘s Project Finance Editorial Board. He has been named a “Global Elite Thought Leader” for Project Finance by Lexology and one of California’s “Top 50 Development Lawyers” by the Daily Journal.
Marks received his B.A. in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the International Tax & Business Lawyer (predecessor to the Berkeley Journal of International Law).
Education
B.A., Johns Hopkins University
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Allan T Marks is teaching the following course in Fall 2025:
• 294.14 sec. 001 - Structuring and Negotiating Complex Financial Transactions
Courses During Other Semesters
| Semester | Course Num | Course Title |  Teaching Evaluations | Fall 2024 | 256.5 sec. 001 | Structuring and Negotiating Complex Financial Transactions | View Teaching Evaluation |
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