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Noor Ashraf

Noor Ashraf

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UK (England & Wales)

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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.