Cormac Kerins
About Cormac Kerins
Cormac Kerins is the Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management in London, with extensive experience in legal counsel and private equity across various firms.
Company
Cormac Kerins currently works at Brookfield Asset Management as a Vice President. Based in London, England, United Kingdom, Brookfield Asset Management is a global alternative asset manager with over $800 billion in assets under management. The firm specializes in property, renewable power, infrastructure, private equity, and credit.
Title
Cormac Kerins holds the position of Vice President at Brookfield Asset Management. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing significant investment activities and developing strategic initiatives for the firm.
Education and Expertise
Cormac Kerins has an extensive educational background. He studied at University College Dublin where he achieved a Business & Law (JD/BBA) degree from 2005 to 2009. He then obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from University of Michigan Law School from 2010 to 2011. He also attended the Law Society of Ireland and completed the PPC program from 2011 to 2013. Further advancing his legal and business acumen, Kerins studied Negotiation & Leadership at Harvard Law School in 2014 and completed the Milbank@Harvard program at Harvard Business School & Law School in 2018.
Professional Background
Cormac Kerins has a diverse professional background in legal and investment roles. Prior to his current role, he worked at Partners Group as Senior Legal Counsel from 2020 to 2022. Before that, he held the role of Associate - Private Equity/M&A at Milbank LLP from 2016 to 2020, and Associate - RE M&A at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP from 2015 to 2016. He also served as Commercial Counsel (Secondment) at Diageo from 2014 to 2015 and Associate at Arthur Cox from 2012 to 2015. Earlier in his career, he was a Student Lawyer at the National Wildlife Federation and held summer intern positions at Maples and Calder, Arthur Cox, and Matheson.
Achievements
Cormac Kerins has several notable achievements in his career. He led Brookfield’s investments into essential European infrastructure sectors, including utilities, transport, midstream, and data. In 2022/2023, he oversaw approximately $22 billion in investment activity. He has also been recognized with several industry awards, including the PFI Awards 2023 Europe Digital Deal of the Year for GD Towers, the TMT M&A Awards 2023 Europe Data Centre Deal of the Year for the acquisition of Data 4, and the PFI Awards 2023 Industrial Deal of the Year for an investment with Intel Corporation.