Founder and Managing Partner of King & National, a vertically integrated Commercial Real Estate Private Equity and Asset Management firm, based out of downtown Toronto, investing and managing a portfolio of CRE Assets and Mortgage Investments on behalf of our Private and Institutional investors.Prior to founding King & National, Mackenzie built a wealth of experience in CRE Debt & Equity, having held senior and leadership positions at Colliers International and Finneo. He has personally led Commercial Real Estate Finance and Structured Debt teams across the U.S. and Canada, and has a proven track record of closing over $2.5 billion in debt transactions and advising on over $6 billion. Mackenzie has a well-known reputation in the CRE industry for his expertise in handling large, complex, and a-typical transactions that require specific expertise in complex capital stack structuring, sensitive situations, and creative financing solutions. Mackenzie's expertise has been relied upon by some of the largest property-owners, developers, asset managers, and builders in the industry to provide advice, guidance, strategy, certainty of execution, and proper risk-management, for some of the largest and most complex projects in Canada.Throughout his career, Mackenzie has mentored, trained, and led industry professionals in major markets across North America, including Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, New York, Miami, Charlotte, along with extensive experience in countless secondary and tertiary markets as well; but always with a primary focus on the Ontario market. Mackenzie has worked across all asset and loan types over the course of his career including: Multi-Family (self-liquidating and rentals, both CMHC and conventional, student housing, etc.), Hospitality, Retail, Office, Industrial, Land (zoned, un-zoned, brownfield, etc.), Gas Stations, Academic Facilities, Special-Use, etc. and has developed a reputation across the lending and borrowing community for his unparalleled expertise in construction financing.