Allan Marks is a retired partner at Milbank LLP, where he practiced for over 30 years and was a partner in the firm’s Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group. He 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 focused on the energy transition, renewable energy, innovative clean technologies, and sustainability. He teaches law and finance at both the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA and is a Contributor to Forbes. He speaks frequently on energy, infrastructure, climate change, business strategy, financial markets, public policy, and international transactions, and 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, participated as a UN-credentialed delegate at the COP27 climate change conference in Egypt, was the legal/regulatory specialist on a USAID team advising on energy sector reforms in India, and earlier interned at UNIDO’s Special Advisory Group on Energy in Vienna and served as a legislative aide to a member of the US Congress. He received a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.