Max Curzon-Hope

Max is the Founding Partner of Curshaw Commercial and an acknowledged leading expert in Private Finance Initiatives and associated real estate supply chain transformation.

Max is a founding advisor to the Association of Infrastructure Investors in PPPs (AIIP). He has been personally involved in the preparation for handback of 54 PFI projects to date, has driven programmes of substantial operational improvement for many of the leading portfolio investors and was one of two senior civil servants responsible for DWP’s award winning and successful exit of the very first PFI expiry - PRIME, a 20-year £13.3bn contract. 

Prior to founding Curshaw, Max was a Senior Civil Servant and Head of Real Estate Service Delivery at the Department of Work and Pensions where he was responsible for operational and strategic management of a 1.5m sqm property portfolio across 850 sites and contract and budget owner of a £200m p.a. property supply chain with an annual lifecycle budget of £45m. 

As an accredited member of the Government Commercial Function with 10 years’ experience at the centre of government, he has delivered major complex commercial change and commercial transactions with a history of holding strategic suppliers to account. Max was responsible for uncovering the G4S and Serco tagging scandal that led to the repayment of approximately £180m to the Ministry of Justice. His unique experience and perspective underpins Curshaw’s market reputation for insightful, independent and practical commercial solutions on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure contracts.