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Hennick & Company
Hennick & Company was formalized in 2014 by Bradley Hennick, son of FirstService Corporation and Colliers International founder Jay S. Hennick.
Hennick & Company
Hennick & Company was formalized in 2014 by Bradley Hennick, son of FirstService Corporation and Colliers International founder Jay S. Hennick. The family's wealth originated with FirstService, a property-services business launched in 1989 that spun off Colliers as a standalone public company in 2015, leaving the Hennicks as dominant shareholders in both firms. The office invests the family's own capital, with no outside limited partners. The office allocates across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, favoring direct co-investments and buyout-stage deals in North America and Europe. The real-estate portfolio is deliberately concentrated in high-barrier urban submarkets: the Mandarin Oriental Retail at Boston's Prudential Center, Bridge Tower Place Retail on Manhattan's Upper East Side, York Mills Centre and the Hazelton Hotel in Toronto, and a net-lease portfolio across Canada. In financial infrastructure, the firm holds a stake in Haventree Bank, a Schedule I Canadian bank. A signature transaction outside traditional property was the 2021 strategic investment in Foster + Partners, the architecture practice led by Lord Norman Foster — a deal that blended the family's real-estate operating knowledge with control of a design franchise. Confirmed sector concentrations include PropTech, FinTech, Industrial Tech, and Healthcare Services, with additional activity mapped to ClimateTech, WaterTech, Mobility & Transportation, EdTech, and GovTech. The office is run by Bradley Hennick as CEO and his brother Jory Hennick as Managing Director, operating from Toronto. Jay Hennick, appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2019 and inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2024, maintains the family's governance link to Colliers as its Global Chairman and CEO. The family's philanthropic capital flows through The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation, structurally separate from the investment office. The firm's structural advantage is its permanent capital base — it does not fundraise, does not mark to market under quarterly LP pressure, and can hold assets through cycles. This lets the office write equity checks into operating businesses and real estate that a conventional fund would have to exit. In practice, Hennick & Company acts as a cross between a holding company for hard assets and a long-duration private equity investor, unified by a single real-estate-operating family's balance sheet.
General information
Firm type
Single Family Office
Year founded
2014
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
Canada
City
Toronto
Corporate office
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Principals
Bradley Hennick
Founder & CEO
Jory Hennick
Managing Director
Jay S. Hennick
Founder, FirstService Corporation & Global Chairman and CEO, Colliers International
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Hennick & Company?
Bradley Hennick, the founder and CEO, leads the firm alongside his brother Jory Hennick, who serves as Managing Director. Their father, Jay S. Hennick, is the founder of FirstService and Global Chairman and CEO of Colliers International, providing the operating and strategic link to the two public companies that generated the family's wealth.
How does Hennick & Company source proprietary deal flow?
The firm's sourcing advantage comes from the Hennick family's operating history in real-estate services and brokerage via FirstService and Colliers International. The 2021 investment in Foster + Partners, the global architecture practice, added a design-franchise network to its origination map. Deal flow often originates through relationships with operators and property owners in North American and European urban markets.
Is Hennick & Company structured as a single family office or does it operate more like a venture firm?
It is a single family office. The firm deploys the Hennick family's own capital, with no outside limited partners. While it makes private equity-style direct investments in operating businesses and financial infrastructure, it does not raise funds — its buyout- and growth-stage deals are balance-sheet transactions funded by permanent family capital.
Does Hennick & Company participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
The office focuses on direct co-investments, SPVs, and direct ownership of real estate and operating businesses. There is no public record of the firm committing as a limited partner to third-party funds. Its real-estate holdings — including the Mandarin Oriental Retail in Boston and Bridge Tower Place in Manhattan — are held directly.
Which sectors does Hennick & Company explicitly avoid?
The office has not published a formal exclusion list. Observed activity clusters around property, financial infrastructure, and business services. The firm has not disclosed positions in consumer internet, biotech therapeutics, or traditional upstream energy, suggesting a preference for assets where the family's real-estate and operating experience gives it an analytical edge.
How is Hennick & Company related to Colliers International and FirstService?
Jay S. Hennick founded FirstService Corporation in 1989 and later served as the architect of its spin-off of Colliers International in 2015. The Hennick family remains the controlling shareholder of both public companies, and Jay Hennick continues as Colliers' Global Chairman and CEO. Hennick & Company is the private family office that invests the wealth generated by those stakes.
Does Hennick & Company maintain philanthropic structures, and how are they separated?
Yes. The family's philanthropy is housed in The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation, a separate legal entity from the investment office. The foundation is not used as a deal-sourcing vehicle, and its grant-making activity — including support for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where the Sorel Etrog collection is displayed — operates independently.
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