Brooks
Blake
Head of Europe,
London
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Brooks Blake is a Partner and Head of Europe at NW1.
Prior to joining NW1 Partners, Mr. Blake ran real assets investing for three large family offices over eleven years, including the Bain Capital family office. In these positions, Brooks led 92 investments totalling over $850m of equity commitments across real estate, energy, mining and agriculture in Europe, the United States and Asia. He was responsible for investment strategy, portfolio construction, sourcing, due diligence and risk management.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Blake developed over nine million square feet of office, residential, hotel, retail and mixed-use projects for The JBG Companies and Xander Advisors, two large real estate private equity firms. The JBG Companies is now a $2.6bn REIT (ticker:JBGS) after merging with the former Washington DC portfolio of Vornado Realty Trust (ticker:VNO).
Brooks began his career as an Analyst in Mergers and Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and was an Associate at Winslow Partners, a family office for certain former Partners of Goldman Sachs.
Mr. Blake holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Economics and Political Science with Honours and Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.