George is a property specialist with great experience. Best known for his work for developers of commercial property, he has also acted on numerous transactions involving agricultural and high value residential properties.

He was a legal advisor to the Country Landowners Association. From there he moved to the City firm of Cameron Markby Hewitt, where he was a partner for 10 years from 1988. He acted for life funds, developers and insolvency practitioners, and also led the firm’s agricultural practice. In 1998 he moved to be a partner at Wanbroughs Willey Hargrave (now Beachcroft LLP). There he worked on many retail and commercial developments, a number of public sector projects and on sales of development land by private clients.

In collaboration with the University of the West of England he designed a unique award winning training programme for property lawyers, the UWE Diploma in Commercial Property. In 2008 he joined Philip Hands to develop a practice that can offer a full specialist service in property matters. < back