Addleshaw Goddard

About Addleshaw Goddard

We are a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm [that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally.

We have been advising clients for 250 years, and today we support over 5000 of the world's most respected organisations. We have been a leading advisor to the social and affordable housing sector for almost four decades, recognised independently as the UK's Number 1 Firm for social and affordable housing finance and investment for the past 20 years.  We help businesses in over 50 areas of business law, including debt finance, investment, housing development, governance and housing partnerships across more than 100 countries. And while the opportunities and challenges they bring us vary, we solve each in a uniquely AG way.  

Our clients enjoy working with us, we deliver a high-quality experience across everything we do, and we are known for award-winning innovation – all of which we harness to bring impact to clients.

Addleshaw Goddard and the affordable and social housing sector

Across all aspects of the affordable and social housing sector, we bring together the right people, to form the right partnerships and to help our clients' deliver the right places.

We often lead the collaborative process between all stakeholders and our passion for this sector emanates from many of us being, to quote Shelter, "made in Social Housing".  

We connect registered providers, funders, developers and institutional capital, to facilitate conversations and create partnerships which deliver homes nationally.

“Our ambition is clear: to combine market-leading expertise across finance, development, governance, investment and regulation, so that we are the law firm of choice for the most complex, strategic and impactful projects in the affordable sector” – Lee Shankland-Gort, Head of Social and Affordable Housing Group.

We would be very happy to talk to you about your affordable and social housing needs – please do get in touch for a conversation.