S. Michael Brooks is a partner in the 130-lawyer Toronto firm of Aird & Berlis, where he practices commercial real estate. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Environmental Studies (BES 1975, PhD 1998), the University of Western Ontario Law School (LL.B), called to the Ontario bar in 1980, Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.M) and York University (MBA).

Michael is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Real Property Association of Canada, a national trade association of Canada’s largest institutional, public and private real estate companies.