Overview
Noor is a managing associate in the Energy and Infrastructure team with over 8 years of experience advising on the construction, development, financing arrangements, acquisition and divestment of energy infrastructure assets. She has particular expertise in low carbon projects, advising on several innovative, first-in-market transactions in this space.
Noor has completed several client secondments including to energy majors such as Innogy SE and EDF, as well as a client secondment to Macquarie Bank Limited.
Noor started her career at Linklaters, with a sabbatical to pursue an LLM in Human Rights and Sustainable Development at Columbia University in 2014/2015.
Work highlights
Noor has played a key role on several market-leading renewables and low carbon projects. These include advising:
- the energy administrators of Bulb Energy in the first ever use of the energy supply company administration regime
- Equinor and SSE, the sponsors, on the development and financing of the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm
- Equinor on its equity investment in a portfolio of battery storage projects in the United Kingdom
- EDF, the sponsor, on the development, construction and ECA-backed financing of the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm in Scotland
- lenders on the €1.1 billion refinancing of JP Morgan’s Infrastructure Investments Fund (IIF) onshore wind portfolio
- the sponsors on the £2.6bn EIB/EKF/commercial lender financing of the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the UK and subsequent refinancing
Education and qualifications
Noor holds a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an LLM from Columbia University, she was also named a Harlan Fiske Scholar.
