Max Curzon-Hope

Max is the Founding Partner of Curshaw Commercial, a consultancy established to address the toughest and most complex PPP infrastructure problems across the whole commercial lifecycle - from inception to handback. 

His team specialise in undertaking complex contract reviews, data assurance and audits and in developing pragmatic commercial strategies that deliver value for all parties.   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 life-cycle budget of £45m.