Lambert Smith Hampton, the commercial property consultancy, has appointed Craig Maguire as head of its Scotland operations as the firm gears up to double its size North of the Border.

Mr Maguire will oversee the Glasgow and Edinburgh offices of the firm as it expands existing service lines and introduces new offerings.

Mike Thatcher, national operations director at Lambert Smith Hampton, said: “We have considerable confidence about Scotland’s prospects and have set ourselves some challenging targets; Craig’s appointment demonstrates that we’re serious about our expansion at a time when there are many exciting new opportunities in Scotland.”

Mr Maguire has over 20 years industry experience, having worked in agency, development and capital markets in Scotland, Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. He joins from DTZ, where he was a senior director in the capital markets team in Warsaw. Prior to that, he was managing director of Point Park Properties – a Merrill Lynch-Arcapita fund - where he led the acquisition, development, funding and leasing of over 1.5million sq ft of industrial and logistics space.

Mr Maguire commented: “We see significant potential in growing our offer to clients in Scotland and we will invest to realise these opportunities.”