Norton Rose Fulbright is a British international law firm with 3,800 lawyers in over fifty cities on six continents.[1] Norton Rose Fulbright advised MASEN, the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy, on the Noor solar program and on the issuance of Morocco’s first green bonds to finance this program.[2] In addition, Norton Rose Fulbright, in consortium with Attijariwafa Finance and Roland Berger, was selected to lead the IPO/partial privatization of Morocco’s main ports operator, Marca Maroc,which operates the ports of Laayoune and Dakhla.[3]
Green Giraffe is a Netherlands-based, European-international financial renewable-energy advisory firm with offices in Hamburg, Utrecht, Paris, and London.[4] In 2015, Green Giraffe provided strategic advising to MASEN in preparation for MASEN’s NOOR PV I tender for 3 energy projects, with a total capacity of 170 MW, located in Western Sahara.[5]
[1] Norton Rose Fulbright, Homepage, http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/; Norton Rose Fulbright, “Fact Sheet,” January 2017, http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/files/media-information-norton-rose-fulbright-factsheet-72508.pdf.
[2] Norton Rose Fulbright, “Norton Rose Fulbright advises MASEN on Solar Programme and First Green Bond in Morocco,” November 23, 2016, http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/news/144752/norton-rose-fulbright-advises-masen-on-solar-programme-and-first-green-bond-in-morocco; Legal Monitor, “Norton Rose Fulbright Advises MASEN on Solar Programme and First Green Bond in Morocco,” November 25, 2016, http://www.legal-monitor.com/news/norton-rose-fulbright-advises-masen-solar-programme-and-first-green-bond-morocco.
[3] Sogecapital Borse, “Semestriel Marche Boursier,” June 30, 2014, https://www.sogebourse-net.com/DOCUMENTS/Analyse_Et_Recmmandation/Revue_semestrielle_-_Juin_2014-.pdf.
[4] https://green-giraffe.eu/article/masen-selects-acwa-power-170-mw-noor-pv-1-program.
[5] Green Giraffe, Projects,
https://green-giraffe.eu/projects/noor-pv-i - expo/6/25.25678288577899/-13.836035156250006
