Mark Kantor

Until he retired from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Mark Kantor was a partner in the Corporate and Project Finance Groups of the Firm and resident in the Washington, D.C. office. He currently serves as an arbitrator and mediator, and teaches courses in International Business Transactions and in International Arbitration as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center (Recipient, 2006 Fahy Award for Outstanding Adjunct Professor). He is also a Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment (a joint undertaking of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University). Mr. Kantor has taught as a faculty member of the International Law Institute and has chaired or spoken at numerous professional conferences. In 1990, Mr. Kantor was General Counsel of the Resolution Trust Corporation Oversight Board (the U.S. Federal agency responsible for supervision and oversight with respect to the S&L crisis). He served from 1987 until 1999 as Counsel to the American Academy of Diplomacy. Mr. Kantor graduated with honors in 1975 from the University of Southern California and in 1979 from both the University of Michigan's Institute for Public Policy Studies, where he received his master's degree, and the University of Michigan Law School. He joined Milbank Tweed in 1979, and was assigned to the Firm's Hong Kong office for several years in the 1980s. In late 1986, he became a partner in the Firm. He relocated to the Washington, D.C. office in 1987. *** B.A., with honors, University of Southern California; M.P.P, J.D., University of Michigan. Until his retirement January 1, 2000, Professor Kantor was a partner in the Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where his principal focus was in the area of international financings and investments. His practice combined Wall Street expertise with Washington experience. He represented sponsors and financial institutions in complex project financings and other infrastructure projects and workouts and restructurings, and he had considerable involvement with the energy, power, telecommunications and financial services industries. In addition, he has represented acquirers, sellers and financing parties in numerous acquisitions. Professor Kantor is active as an arbitrator and mediator, particularly in connection with international disputes. His recent dispute resolution engagements include matters involving telecommunications, energy, mergers and acquisitions, the building industry, the securities industry, and infrastructure development. Professor Kantor was the lead partner in Milbank's involvement in a number of prominent international project financings, including several "Deals of the Year" named by trade periodicals in the 1990s. Among his engagements were the first project financing by U.S. Eximbank's Project Finance Division (Upper Mahiao), the first private power project in Indonesia (Paiton), the first private power project in the Gulf (Al Manah), the first limited recourse power project in Turkey (Trakya Elektrik), the first World Bank partial risk guarantee (Uch, in Pakistan), the first capital markets offering to finance an international water project and the first Inter-American Development Bank partial risk guarantee (both in the Salitre project, in Colombia). He was a leader of Milbank's Asian Task Force and was extensively involved in the firm's Asian workouts and restructurings, including engagements in Indonesia and Pakistan. Professor Kantor has written numerous journal and law review articles on a number of subjects, including international arbitration and finance.