Noor Ashraf | Lawyers

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UK (England & Wales)

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Energy & Infrastructure

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"I work with sponsors and financiers on a wide range of development, financing, M&A and regulatory mandates across the infrastructure and energy sectors. I enjoy the challenge of working on technically complex transactions, whilst providing pragmatic advice that is geared towards achieving the commercial goals of my clients."

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

Beyond the Office

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.

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