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Ayesha Waheed
Work Department
Corporate Business Transactions
Position
Ayesha Waheed, a partner in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, practices principally in the project finance, infrastructure, and natural resources practice. She represents developers and lenders in oil and gas, power generation, and infrastructure projects, and has experience in all aspects of structuring, negotiating, and drafting finance and commercial documents in connection with international project financings and privatizations. For more information, view Ayesha’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/ayeshawaheed.
Education
University of Cambridge, 1990, BA, Law; Georgetown University Law Center, 1991, LLM
Lawyer Rankings
London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP remains strong in financing and transactional work, whilst having the strength in depth to handle contentious matters, including litigation, arbitration and regulatory issues. Ayesha Waheed leads the team and acts for developers and lenders in oil and gas, power generation, and infrastructure projects.
London > Industry focus > Emerging markets
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius UK LLP handles complex transactions and disputes across a host of emerging markets, and its work encompasses trade and export finance, international arbitration, project finance, capital markets and bank finance. The firm’s Africa practice is a core focus for the multi-disciplinary team, which includes Carter Brod, who is dual-qualified in US and English law, and who advises on high-profile bond offerings. He assisted Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago with a consent solicitation for $300m in senior secured notes and a new $70m offering. Ayesha Waheed is a key adviser on energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the CIS and Asia, and Bruce Johnston handles banking and finance transactions in EMEA. Together with Brod they assisted Turkey’s Aktif Bank with the update of its €390m MTN programme. Transactional oil and gas and projects lawyer Olivier Chambord is increasingly involved in emerging markets deals, particularly in Africa, while project development and acquisition finance specialist Seyfi Can Kandemir‘s practice has a strong focus on Turkey.
Lawyer Rankings
- Emerging markets London > Industry focus
- Oil and gas London > Projects, energy and natural resources
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Employment > Employers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Securitisation
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing