Mark A. Walker is Managing Partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and is based in the firm’s New York office.
Mr. Walker’s practice focuses on public and private sector international financing and business transactions, with particular focus on liability management, energy and infrastructure projects. Mr. Walker advises the Mexican government on debt management, energy-related matters and infrastructure finance, and has advised the governments of Argentina, Colombia, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Ivory Coast, Korea, Madagascar, Peru, the Philippines, and Slovenia on external debt matters. He has assisted in the formulation, negotiation and documentation of arrangements with international organizations, commercial banks and creditor governments that have become models for the management of international debt crises. Mr. Walker has also recently advised the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on matters relating to the current financial crisis and advises private sector debtors and creditors in negotiating complex international financings and restructurings. Mr. Walker lectures on international financial matters and has published on public and private financing.
Mr. Walker has represented clients in Latin American transactions for more than 35 years, including, among other things, financings, acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, privatizations and infrastructure projects.
Chambers Global,
Chambers USA and
Chambers Latin America distinguish Mr. Walker’s corporate practice in Latin America as one of the best in the region. In recognition of his contributions to the development of innovative financing techniques in both the public and private sectors in Latin America,
LatinFinance named Mr. Walker the “Best Latin Financier Lawyer” over the last twenty years.
Mr. Walker joined the firm in 1966, became a partner in 1975 and Managing Partner in 2005. From 1966 to 1970, he was resident in the firm’s Paris and Brussels offices. Mr. Walker received an LL.B degree in 1966 from Yale Law School, where he served as Article and Book Review Editor of the
Yale Law Journal. He received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1963.
Mr. Walker also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Population Council.
Mr. Walker is a member of the Bar in New York.