Team
Brookfield Financial is a team. It shows in the people we hire, the relationships we build and the way we work together for our clients. Drawn from professional backgrounds that include finance, investment banking, and real estate, every member of our team adds to the depth of our expertise and the exceptional range and quality of our services.
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Brydon D. Cruise
President & Managing Partner
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Brydon Cruise leads the group with more than 25 years of experience in real estate investment banking. He is responsible for originating and executing real estate M&A, debt and equity capital markets transactions for Brookfield Financial. Brydon previously worked as a Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets in the commercial mortgaged-backed securities business and developed a mortgage trading platform for the bank. His experience also includes working on the principal side as a Managing Partner for two prominent US based real estate finance investment companies, Fortress Investment Group and Lonestar Opportunity Fund. Prior to that he worked in the real estate investment banking group at Citigroup.
Notable transactions that Brydon has participated in include the privatization of Summit REIT by ING Real Estate, the Sale of Atlas Cold Storage to the Avion Group, the sale of Dundee REIT’s central and eastern assets to GE Real Estate, the formulation of Dundee International and the sale of Deerfoot Meadows in Calgary.
Brydon has a Business Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of Board of the YMCA of Greater Toronto.
Brydon is the President for Brookfield Financial Corp.
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Leonard M. Abramsky
Managing Partner
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Leonard joined Brookfield Financial in 2005 and oversees the company’s property advisory business on a global basis. Prior to joining Brookfield Financial, he was a Managing Director of TD Cornerstone which he joined in 1998 after TD Securities acquired the Cornerstone Commercial Realty the boutique property advisory that he established in 1995 following twelve years as one of CBRE’s leading investment sales professionals in Canada. Leonard has over 27 years of experience in real estate on the investment banking and brokerage sides of the industry.
Leonard’s focus has been the sale of all forms of investment product across Canada. He has been involved in major transactions in almost every province and has acted for clients in the sale of such notable transactions as Yonge-Eglinton Centre, Atrium on Bay, CN Central Station in Montreal and Deerfoot Meadows in Calgary, and most recently in the sale of retail malls throughout Brazil. Leonard and his team assist the firm's public, private, and institutional clients through property brokerage, M&A advisory and debt and equity financing and, as such, have successfully completed over $20 billion of transactions since 2005.
Leonard is a graduate of Boston University School of Management and holds a BSc in Business Administration Real Estate Finance. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of USDS as its President, and served Robbins Hebrew Academy as its past President.
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Eric Michael Anton
Managing Partner
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Eric Anton joined Brookfield Financial’s New York office in 2011 and is responsible for originating and executing on real estate property brokerage and structured finance transactions primarily on the East Coast. He has over 20 years of experience in real estate investment brokerage advising on all aspects of the acquisition and disposition requirements for private, institutional and public company clientele. Prior to joining Brookfield Financial, Eric was Executive Managing Director for Eastern Consolidated, one of the top brokerages in New York City, and started his career with Bovis Lend Lease in Construction and Project Management. Eric has completed over $5 billion in transactions including office, multifamily, hotel, and development sites.
Notable 2011 Transactions include the $122 million sale of the 1 million square foot Verizon Tower at Pearl Street in Manhattan to be redeveloped into a Telecom Hotel; a $125 million sale of land owned by Fordham University; and the 99-year ground lease transaction for a trophy hi-rise apartment building to be developed by Equity Residential Properties Trust.
Eric is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Master's in Real Estate Finance from Columbia University. Eric is also involved with a variety of charities and organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America, Ronald McDonald House, and The Real Estate Board of New York.
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Patrick M. Boocock
Managing Partner
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As Managing Partner of Brookfield Financial’s Infrastructure Advisory Group, Patrick brings unparalleled experience in infrastructure delivery and financing with over 12 years of investment banking and development experience working directly as a developer, investor and financial arranger on some of Canada and Australia’s most prominent infrastructure projects. Patrick has significant experience in public-private partnerships and other green field development projects, debt and equity capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, as part of a Brookfield Financial assignment, Patrick was the Managing Director of WestNet Infrastructure Group, an AUD$1.8 billion natural gas transmission and distribution portfolio in Australia where he was responsible for the restructuring, refinancing, and ultimate sale of the group.
Patrick is a Chartered Accountant (Canada), Certified Public Accountant (United States), and graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce Degree from McMaster University, Canada.
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John Cardiff
Managing Partner
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John Cardiff is a Managing Partner of Brookfield Financial where he oversees the company’s property advisory business for Calgary and the western region of North America. John has over 24 years of experience in all aspect of commercial real estate holding senior positions within principal as well as advisory services firms’ active in the investment banking, property brokerage, development, construction, leasing as well as financing sides of the industry.
John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and is the Broker of Record for Brookfield Financial’s Calgary property brokerage operation.
John’s current focus is on the sale of all forms of investment product across Canada. He has been involved in major transactions in almost every province and has acted for clients, most recently in the sale of the ATCO CBD Office Properties in Edmonton and Calgary and Deerfoot Meadows, one of Calgary’s largest Power Centres.
John is a Broker with Brookfield Financial Real Estate Group Limited.
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Greg Kalil
Managing Partner
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Greg is responsible for originating and executing real estate, infrastructure and structured finance transactions at Brookfield Financial. He has over 25 years of experience in real estate investment banking and has expertise in all aspects of the acquisition and disposition requirements of Brookfield Financial’s private, institutional and public company clientele. In addition, Greg has responsibility for the Structured Transactions business group at Brookfield Financial, and has experience in joint ventures, fund raises, equity placement and participation arrangements. Previously, Greg worked in the investment banking group of TD Securities were he was responsible for originating and executing numerous real estate transactions.
Notable recent transactions that Greg has participated in include the joint venture arrangement for the development of the Toronto Buttonville Airport, equity placement for the Retirement Life Communities Joint Venture, structuring and placement of the Graywood GTA Condominium Fund, and some of the largest rental housing, seniors housing, and land sales in Canadian history.
Greg graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1983.
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Michal Kuzmicki
Managing Partner
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Mike joined Brookfield Financial’s Montreal office in 2008 and is responsible for originating and executing property brokerage, M&A, and financing transactions primarily in the Quebec market. Prior to joining Brookfield Financial, he was Managing Director with CIBC World Markets, which he joined in 2002 after serving as Senior Vice President, Investments with Colliers International. Mike has over 25 years experience in real estate finance, dispositions and acquisitions on behalf of corporate and institutional clients.
Notable transactions he has participated in include Place Canada Trust, Ogilvy, Montreal Eaton Centre, Champlain Mall, SITQ’s Laval office portfolio, Place Bonaventure and Dominion Square, amongst others.
Mike is a graduate of McGill University (MBA) and Loyola College (BA) and holds the FICB designation. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of UDI Quebec and on the Board of Trustees of the McCord Museum of Canadian History.
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Ricardo G. Mattei
Managing Partner
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Ricardo G. Mattei is the Managing Partner of Brookfield Financial’s office in Brazil, joining the company in 2011 after working for Banco Brascan (a Brookfield company) for almost 18 years. Ricardo was an Investment Analyst at Capitaltec Consultoria Econômica from 1988 to 1992 and worked as Manager of the Planning Department at Alcatel Telecomunicações S.A. from 1992 to 1993. He joined Banco Brascan in 1993 as Corporate Finance Manager and from 1996 to 1998 worked at Banco Fonte Cindam as M & A Manager. In 1999, Ricardo returned to Banco Brascan as the head of the Research area. Ricardo later became responsible for the Advisory Service Area and Executive Direction of Banco Brascan.
Ricardo obtained his degree in Civil Engineering from Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo (1986) and became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 2000.