Tara Goalen
Associate London
Tara is an associate in the London Projects group.
Tara specialises in banking and project finance transactions in the renewable energy and oil and gas sectors, acting for banks, traders and borrowers. She also has M&A and construction experience.
Since joining the firm, Tara has worked in the firm’s London and Paris offices.
- Advising Mauritius Commercial Bank as agent and lender on an up to US$110m reserve-based lending facility and an up to US$30m working capital facility granted to Afentra Ltd for the acquisition from INA-Industrija d.d. of 4% interests in Block 3/05 and Block 3/05A offshore Angola in the Lower Congo Basin. This acquisition marks Afentra’s entry into Angola, one of the most dynamic and expanding markets in Africa.
- Advising lenders and arrangers in relation to the acquisition financing of onshore upstream assets from Shell in Egypt.
- Advising North Star Renewables Limited on the acquisition of service operation vessels to service and maintain the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the North Sea.
Education
- 2018 – 2019 · BPP University Law School (LPC)
- 2015 – 2018 · University College London (Law LLB)