Speakers

Noeleen is a Partner and Co-Head of Walkers Finance and Capital Markets Group in Dublin. Noeleen advises international financial institutions, investment banks, arrangers, managers, private equity, hedge funds, agents and trustees on a range of structured finance products transactions including CLO's, ABS, RMBS, CMBS, debt offerings, CAT bonds and Commercial Paper Programmes.

Noeleen has also advised on combined qualifying investor alternative investment fund (QIAIF)/special purpose vehicle (SPV) transactions, distressed, stressed, performing and non-performing debt deals, and other bespoke structured product transactions.

She acts as lead counsel for a number of US hedge funds and private equity funds which invest in distressed, stressed, performing and non-performing European assets. She also regularly acts as trustee and agency counsel on Irish law capital market deals, and as issuer counsel advising on the restructuring of stressed and defaulted securitisations.

Noeleen has regularly been recognised as a leading lawyer in the industry, winning Structured Finance Lawyer of the Year 2022 and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year 2024 at the EMEA Women in Business Law Awards and retaining the IFLR 'Women Leaders' ranking for several consecutive years.