Lee Shankland-Gort leads each of our Housing Finance, Social Sustainable and Green Finance, and ESG Practices globally. He has worked at Addleshaw Goddard since 1998. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer nationally in Social Housing Finance since 2002 and was inducted into the Legal 500 Hall of Fame on its inception. His team advise every active funder, investor and bookrunner in the social housing finance space and have advised on over GBP 80 billion of transactions. He is regularly described by market commentators as the “pre-eminent” lawyer in the UK (e.g. Legal 500, 2024). The social, sustainable and green finance team that Lee leads at Addleshaw Goddard is described as “really strong and market leading” (Legal 500, 2024). In relation to his ESG expertise, Lee is described by clients (Legal 500, 2024) as having “a very broad understanding of the ESG landscape and thinks laterally about the legal aspects which clients should be building into their ESG strategy.”