Firm:	Walkers (Ireland) LLP
Position:	Partner
Address:	The Exchange, George's Dock, International Financial Services Centre, Dublin 1, D01 W3P9
Phone:	+353 1 470 6650
Fax:	+353 1 470 6601
Email:	noeleen.ruddy@walkersglobal.com
Personal URL:	https://www.walkersglobal.com/index.php/component/people/professional/164

Special Areas:

Noeleen Ruddy is based in Walkers' Ireland office where she is a partner and co-head of the Finance and Capital Markets Practice Group.

Noeleen advises international financial institutions, investment banks, arrangers, managers, private equity, hedge funds, agents and trustees in relation to a wide range of structured finance products transactions including securitisations (RMBS, ABS, CMBS), debt offerings, 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.

Deals and Awards:

Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2025
Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2022
Recognised in the Finance Dublin Deals of the Year Awards 2021

Career:

Noeleen previously worked in the Structured Finance and Derivatives Group of a big-five law firm in Dublin.

Some of Noeleen's transactions include:

- Acts as issuer counsel on European Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) transactions.

- Acted as issuer counsel to a major European reinsurer on the placement of a US$190m catastrophe bond deal through an Irish special purpose vehicle – this was the first SPV to be authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland following the implementation of the Solvency II regime under the European Union (Insurance and Reinsurance) Regulations 2015.

- Acted as issuer counsel to a major European bank in relation to a ?380m commercial mortgage backed securitisation through an Irish special purpose vehicle which listed on the Main Securities Market of the Irish Stock Exchange.

Qualifications:

Admitted in:
England and Wales (not practising)
Ireland

Education:
Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Trinity College Dublin
Diploma in Applied Finance, Law Society of Ireland

Memberships:

Member of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
Member of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
Lecturer in the Law Society of Ireland on principles of securitisation