​Career
George was born in New Zealand and has dual New Zealand and German nationality.



He qualified as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1972 and practiced there mainly as a barrister for 10 years before leaving New Zealand to join the Hong Kong Government’s legal department. He spent 6 years with the Government initially as a prosecutor and eventually specialized in construction law and arbitration, becoming head of the construction law division in the Department and then being appointed head of the special legal office established to support the new Chek Lap Kok airport project – at that time the largest airport project in the World. This was one of the first major projects outside the US to make use of dispute adjudication – a forerunner to today’s dispute review and advisory boards. He left the Government to become head of the construction department in the Hong Kong office of a leading City law firm. In 1996 he came to the UK and joined Shadbolt & Co., a leading construction law firm where he remained until 2006. He established the firm’s Athens office and worked in Greece for 2 years.



In 2006 he joined Corbett & Co International Construction Lawyers as a consultant. In 2010 together with leading Greek construction law expert, Alexandros Exarchou, he formed the new firm of Exarchou & Rosenberg International Ltd. which already has a number of established offices in overseas locations.

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​Expertise
His experience includes drafting and negotiating contracts for civil engineering and construction projects, acting as advocate in domestic, ICC and EDF arbitration as well as litigation and ADR. He has acted for governments, developers, service providers, contractors and consultants in arbitration and adjudication. He has experience in PFI in the UK Hong Kong and in Greece. He has been appointed as arbitrator in international disputes. George has acted for clients throughout Europe, in Africa, Central Asia the Middle East and the Far East.

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George is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Users’ Council of the London International Court of Arbitration and the Dispute Review Boards Foundation and is a Corporate Panel Member of the Dispute Board Federation. He is admitted as a lawyer in New Zealand, Hong Kong, England and Wales. He has written and spoken extensively on a wide range of construction law related issues.