Profile: C Allen Parker

Banking

Biography: Banking

C Allen Parker is deputy presiding partner of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP. Allen has extensive experience in a broad range of finance, banking and related matters, including syndicated loan transactions, acquisition financings and leveraged recapitalisations. His clients have included JPMorgan Chase, Citicorp and DreamWorks Animation. In addition, from January 2001 to December 2004, Allen served as the managing partner of the firm's corporate department. Allen was cited as being one of the country's pre-eminent practitioners in the banking and finance arena in Chambers USA 2007: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Cravath's banking and finance practice received the publication's highest ranking for its "incredible quality of legal advice". Allen was also cited for his banking and finance experience in Chambers Global 2008: The World's Leading Lawyers. He has been recognised in the 2007 edition of The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America 2008, PLC Which Lawyer? 2007 and The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2007 as a leader in banking law. Allen is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. He is also a vice chairman of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board.

Allen was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He received a BA, magna cum laude, from Duke University in 1977, an MA from the University of Chicago in 1980, and a JD, magna cum laude, from Columbia Law School in 1983, where he was a notes and comments editor of the Law Review. After a clerkship with the Honorable Amalya Kearse (US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), he joined Cravath in 1984 and became a partner in 1990. He was elected deputy presiding partner in October 2006