Allan T. Marks

Allan Marks teaches in the Energy Law Program at GW Law and serves as a strategic advisor to large corporations, financial institutions, and other organizations internationally. As a lawyer, he has handled complex transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe with an aggregate value of over $100 billion 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. Many of his transactions focus on the energy transition, renewable energy, innovative clean technologies, and sustainability.

Mr. Marks is a retired partner at Milbank LLP, where he practiced law for over 30 years and 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. His practice encompassed project finance and development, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition finance, capital markets, private placements, international and cross-border business transactions, public-private partnerships, joint ventures, restructurings, derivatives, banking and regulatory matters.

Mr. Marks teaches law and finance at the University of California, Berkeley (in the law school and previously at the Haas School of Business) and at UCLA, where he is Affiliated Faculty at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment. Mr. Marks is also a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of the law and climate schools at Columbia University. He is a Contributor to Forbes and speaks frequently on energy, infrastructure, climate change, business strategy, financial markets, public policy, 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. He was for 11 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 participated as a UN-credentialed delegate at the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt. His most recent academic article, “Think Globally and Act Locally: Collaboration Across Borders to Address Climate Change,” was published in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (Spring 2025).

Mr. Marks received a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.