Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard is sought after by major lenders, lead arrangers, and investors to offer advice on the gamut of social housing finance mandates. This offering encompasses debt financing, refinancing, and restructuring matters, and notably, the group has also been active in some of the sector’s first green loan facilities, as well as key mergers. Taking an active role in a large volume of the team’s key transactions, housing finance head Lee Shankland-Gort also leads the firm’s social, sustainable, and green finance group, which assists clients with sustainability-linked lending; Nick Barlow chairs this group in Leeds with expertise in complex social housing transactions. Jennie Chilton heads up the firm’s social housing finance property security practice, and frequently assists clients with securing large portfolios of social housing stock, bond issues, and private placements. Head of the debt capital markets group Beth Collett is another key name, as well as Helen Hunter, who boasts strong relationships with key brokers and housing associations, and managing partner Steve Mackie, who leads the firm-wide finance and projects group with significant experience in large debt transactions.