Noeleen Ruddy

Noeleen is co-head of Walkers' Finance and Capital Markets Practice Group.

Noeleen advises international financial institutions, investment banks, arrangers, managers, private equity, hedge funds, agents and trustees on a range of structured finance products transactions. This includes:

- securitisations (residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)

- asset-backed securities (ABS) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS))

- debt offerings

- collateralised loan obligations (CLOs – whether cash, synthetic or hybrid)

- 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.