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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
2001
Location
Region
North America
Country
Canada
City
Toronto
Corporate office
1140 Bay Street, Suite 2000, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2B4, Canada
Principals
Bradley Hennick
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jay S. Hennick
Chairman, Board of Directors
Robert (Bobby) Armstrong
Chief Financial Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Hennick & Company?
Bradley Hennick serves as founder and chief executive officer. Jay S. Hennick chairs the board. The team evaluates opportunities against criteria focused on consistent earnings power and scalable professional services businesses.
How does Hennick & Company source proprietary deal flow?
The firm draws on the Hennick family's long-standing relationships in real estate and professional services. It targets management buy-outs and partner-owned businesses where existing owners seek aligned long-term capital.
Is Hennick & Company structured as a single family office or does it operate more like a venture firm?
It functions as a single family office backed by permanent capital from the Hennick family. The mandate limits activity to a handful of control investments per year in professional services.
Does Hennick & Company participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
The firm completes only direct control investments. It does not commit to external funds or operate a fund-of-funds program.
What investment stages does Hennick & Company typically target?
The firm focuses on buyouts and growth investments in established professional services companies. It avoids early-stage or venture transactions.
Where does the underlying wealth come from?
The capital originates from the Hennick family's founding and continuing ownership positions in Colliers International and FirstService Corporation.
Does Hennick & Company maintain philanthropic structures, and how are they separated?
The Hennick Family Foundation and the Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation conduct separate philanthropic activities. These vehicles sit outside the investment operations of Hennick & Company.
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