Lee Shankland-Gort

Partner at Addleshaw Goddard

Speaker

Lee trained and qualified with Addleshaw Goddard and he has worked for us since 2001.

Throughout this period, Lee has specialised in a number of areas, including social housing finance where he has led our team which is consistently ranked as the UK's leading law firm acting for funders by both Chambers and The Legal 500 since 2007. He also specialises in debt capital markets, including building society Euro Medium Term Note Programmes, corporate client public bond issues, and securitisation, as well as focussing on acting for placement agents and investors on private placements of bonds. Lee is also experienced in structured real estate finance, in particular, where the real estate involves social housing assets and derivatives.

Lee heads up both our Social, Sustainable and Green Finance practice and our Social Housing Finance practice. He's recognised by both Legal 500 and Chambers as one of the leading lawyers in this space. Lee is a thought leader in the Sustainable and Impact Finance space, contributing to the first ethical money editorial in the i Newspaper, and more recently to City AM and the UK Finance Blog. His knowledge of the Sustainable and Impact Finance, and Social Housing Finance sector is unmatched.