The Dark Prince of Bay Street | Brookfield
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In 1978, a South African accountant orchestrated one of the most audacious and ruthless hostile takeovers in the history of Canadian business.
His name was Jack Cockwell. And over the next decade, he would build a corporate empire unlike anything Canada had ever seen.
This is the third episode in our series examining the history of Brookfield. In our first two episodes, we traced the company’s lineage through Brazilian Traction, the neo-colonial monopoly that dominated South America, and through the Bronfmans, the bootlegging dynasty that supplied…
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