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Noah Honch is a project finance lawyer specializing in cross-border energy and infrastructure projects and has extensive ECA-backed finance experience across a range of sectors, including renewable power (onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery energy storage systems), oil and gas (LNG, FLNG and FPSO), utilities (desalination plants, wastewater treatment plants) and mining. Noah's experience reflects a broad geographic reach, having worked on projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Noah also has strong acquisition finance and general banking experience.
Noah completed a secondment to the Energy and Natural Resources Finance Group at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), where he advised on various projects in the oil and gas, mining and transitional energy sectors (e.g., hydrogen and ammonia).
Noah is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association), and has practiced in London and Tokyo. He is a former academic/archaeologist specializing in palaeodietary reconstruction and radiocarbon dating and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and presented his research at a range of international conferences.
LL.B., University of Law, London
Ph.D., The University of Oxford
M.A., Harvard University
M.Sc., The University of Oxford , Distinction
B.Sc., University of Lethbridge, summa cum laude with highest honors
England and Wales
Japan Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi
British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ)
Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (CCCJ)
England & Wales (Admitted 3/16/2015; Reg #579994)
Japan – Gaikokuhojimubengoshi (Admitted 04/30/2025; Reg. #G1338)
January 16, 2025
King & Spalding Advises Islamic Finance News’ 2024 Project & Infrastructure Deal of the Year
January 15, 2025
King & Spalding Earns Multiple Top-Tier Rankings in 2025 Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide
October 31, 2024
King & Spalding Advises EDF and Masdar-Led Consortium on Cutting Edge, AMAALA Multi-Utilities Infrastructure Facility
Project Financing
Masdar, EDF, Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. and Suez International on the financing of the AMAALA giga project in Saudi Arabia to build and operate a multi-plant integrated utility system including solar PV, BESS, reverse osmosis and wastewater treatment plants, ancillary facilities and network systems (Awarded 2024 Islamic Finance News' (IFN) Project & Infrastructure Deal of the Year and IJGlobal PPP Deal of the Year (Middle East and North Africa)).
JBIC on the financing of the Mozambique LNG Project.
JBIC on the financing of the Barossa Gas Project, Australia.
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January 16, 2025
King & Spalding Advises Islamic Finance News’ 2024 Project & Infrastructure Deal of the Year
January 15, 2025
King & Spalding Earns Multiple Top-Tier Rankings in 2025 Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide
October 31, 2024
King & Spalding Advises EDF and Masdar-Led Consortium on Cutting Edge, AMAALA Multi-Utilities Infrastructure Facility
Project Financing
Masdar, EDF, Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. and Suez International on the financing of the AMAALA giga project in Saudi Arabia to build and operate a multi-plant integrated utility system including solar PV, BESS, reverse osmosis and wastewater treatment plants, ancillary facilities and network systems (Awarded 2024 Islamic Finance News' (IFN) Project & Infrastructure Deal of the Year and IJGlobal PPP Deal of the Year (Middle East and North Africa)).
JBIC on the financing of the Mozambique LNG Project.
JBIC on the financing of the Barossa Gas Project, Australia.
See more
January 16, 2025
King & Spalding Advises Islamic Finance News’ 2024 Project & Infrastructure Deal of the Year
January 15, 2025
King & Spalding Earns Multiple Top-Tier Rankings in 2025 Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide
October 31, 2024
King & Spalding Advises EDF and Masdar-Led Consortium on Cutting Edge, AMAALA Multi-Utilities Infrastructure Facility
LL.B., University of Law, London
Ph.D., The University of Oxford
M.A., Harvard University
M.Sc., The University of Oxford , Distinction
B.Sc., University of Lethbridge, summa cum laude with highest honors
England and Wales
Japan Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi
British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ)
Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (CCCJ)
England & Wales (Admitted 3/16/2015; Reg #579994)
Japan – Gaikokuhojimubengoshi (Admitted 04/30/2025; Reg. #G1338)