Noren Bhulji
Biography
Overview
Noren is a Banking & Finance associate in our Dubai team. She has a wide range of experience, which includes advising consortiums of lenders on structuring and financing high-profile projects and general banking transactions, including advising international and regional banks on asset-based financings, ranging from acquisition to real estate finance (on both a conventional and Shari'ah compliant basis).
Prior to joining White & Case, Noren trained and qualified at another international firm and was based in London and Dubai.
Experience
The lenders in connection with a complex financing of a portfolio including more than thirty roof-top solar projects in the UAE, including the due diligence and regulatory aspects of the projects.
The lenders in connection with various regional and cross border acquisition facilities.
The book-runners and mandated lead arrangers on a US$1.75bn ESG-linked credit facility to Emirates NBD Bank PJSC (ENBD), involving a syndicate of leading international banks. This was ENBD's debut ESG-linked loan and one of the region's first sustainability-linked loans.
A syndicate of Middle Eastern banks on a secured term facility for the purposes of refinancing existing projects.
Global financial institutions in relation to various real estate financings in the United Kingdom. one of the largest real estate companies in the Middle East on the insolvency of one of its clients.
Financial institutions on financing the construction and operation of power facilities in Jordan.
Large financial institutions in Saudi Arabia on the refinancing and expansion of district cooling systems.
Middle Eastern banks and international banks on cross-jurisdictional facilities relating to UAE companies.
