Ryan Szainwald

Ryan Szainwald is a Managing Partner in the Private Equity group at Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world's largest alternative asset managers, headquartered in Toronto. In his role he is responsible for global transaction execution and strategic initiatives across Brookfield's private equity platform. He joined Brookfield in 2016.

Before moving to the buy-side, Szainwald spent his early career in law. He was a Partner at a leading Canadian law firm, where his practice focused on corporate finance, public mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions — a background that maps directly onto his current deal-execution mandate at Brookfield.

He holds a joint Master of Business Administration / Bachelor of Laws (JD) degree earned through the Schulich School of Business at York University and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. His combined legal and finance training is characteristic of the transactional, execution-focused profile Brookfield values in its private equity dealmakers.

*(No publicly stated personal investment thesis or direct quote from Szainwald was found; the above is drawn from his firm bio and Brookfield's private equity mandate.)*

• Invests through Brookfield's institutional Private Equity funds, not personal angel capital — meaning large, control-oriented buyouts of established operating businesses rather than early-stage venture bets.
• Focus is on transaction execution and strategic initiatives globally: sourcing, structuring, and closing complex private equity deals.
• Brookfield's private equity strategy favors essential, cash-flow-generative businesses (business and industrial services) where operational improvement and Brookfield's operating expertise can drive returns.
• A legal + M&A pedigree shapes his approach — deals with complex structuring, corporate finance, and public-to-private dynamics are within his wheelhouse.