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Ayesha Waheed is a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Team and has over 30 years of experience focusing on project and corporate financings in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. Ayesha has extensive experience in representing developers and lenders in oil and gas, metals and mining, power generation, and infrastructure transactions, including PPP projects, around the globe, with a particular focus on Emerging Markets jurisdictions.

Ayesha is well versed in all aspects of structuring, negotiating, and drafting finance and commercial documents in connection with international project financings and privatizations. Dual qualified in the State of New York and England & Wales, and having practiced in the US, Europe and Asia, she has advised sponsors/equity investors, multi-lateral and development finance institutions, export credit agencies, institutional investors, and commercial financial institutions in complex financing transactions, often involving multiple sources of financing, for energy and infrastructure developments and acquisitions across the world.

Professional Memberships

Member, Mayor of London’s Infrastructure Advisory Panel (2020–2022)

Co-chair, Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN) Hydrogen Taskforce’s Financing Issues Working Group (2023-2025)

Personal

University of Cambridge, 1990, BA, Law; Georgetown University Law Center, 1991, LLM

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Ayesha Waheed of Hunton Andrews Kurth focuses her practice on energy infrastructure developments, including LNG and renewable energy projects. She has particular experience advising on transactions involving assets based in Turkey.

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