diff --git a/Google.Api.Generator.Utils.Tests/Formatting/XmlDocSplitterTest.cs b/Google.Api.Generator.Utils.Tests/Formatting/XmlDocSplitterTest.cs
index 5130672c..c75b4112 100644
--- a/Google.Api.Generator.Utils.Tests/Formatting/XmlDocSplitterTest.cs
+++ b/Google.Api.Generator.Utils.Tests/Formatting/XmlDocSplitterTest.cs
@@ -46,9 +46,17 @@ public void MultiLine()
         [Fact]
         public void Preformatted()
         {
-            // Whitespace around " Line 2 " is delibrate, to test extra whitespace removal at end of lines only.
+            // Whitespace around " Line 2 " is deliberate, to test extra whitespace removal at end of lines only.
             var s = XmlDocSplitter.Split(s_indent4, 40, TrivList(XmlDoc.SummaryPreFormatted(new[] { "Line 1", " Line 2 " }))).ToFullString();
             Assert.Equal($"    /// <summary>{s_nl}    /// Line 1{s_nl}    ///  Line 2{s_nl}    /// </summary>{s_nl}", s);
         }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void PreformattedWithAngleBrackets()
+        {
+            var summary = XmlDoc.SummaryPreFormatted(new[] { "Before <angles> after" });
+            var split = XmlDocSplitter.Split(s_indent4, 80, TrivList(summary)).ToFullString();
+            Assert.Equal($"    /// <summary>{s_nl}    /// Before &lt;angles&gt; after{s_nl}    /// </summary>{s_nl}", split);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/Google.Api.Generator.Utils/Formatting/XmlDocSplitter.cs b/Google.Api.Generator.Utils/Formatting/XmlDocSplitter.cs
index ac8d0379..1a037396 100644
--- a/Google.Api.Generator.Utils/Formatting/XmlDocSplitter.cs
+++ b/Google.Api.Generator.Utils/Formatting/XmlDocSplitter.cs
@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ private IEnumerable<DocumentationCommentTriviaSyntax> SplitPreformatted(Document
                 {
                     if (node is XmlTextSyntax text)
                     {
-                        yield return OneLine(XmlText(string.Join("", text.GetText().Lines).TrimEnd()));
+                        // Create an XmlTextLiteral with exactly the value we've fetched. This avoids
+                        // double-escaping < to &amp;lt; when it should just be &lt;
+                        string value = string.Join("", text.GetText().Lines).TrimEnd();
+                        yield return OneLine(XmlText(XmlTextLiteral(value, value)));
                     }
                     else
                     {