Real Estate
Canongate specializes in adaptive re-use, and value-add projects, acting as principal developer or joint-venture. We are owner-managers, with extensive, hands-on experience across multiple asset classes including multifamily, office, light industrial and single-family residential.
Canongate provides creative, time-sensitive capital solutions to both residential and commercial developers and sponsors. Canongate’s diverse sources of capital facilitate tailored transactions that meet the specific, time-sensitive needs of developers and investors.
Capital
Canongate Capital is an opportunistic private equity investment vehicle active across multiple asset classes, including consumer goods, real estate, service businesses and healthcare.
Through direct ownership, equity and venture investment, we provide capital and expertise to early-stage service and consumer goods companies. The Canongate strategy is hands-on, value-add.
Advisory
Canongate Advisory works shoulder-to-shoulder with the owners, operators, and managers of companies in transition, both internal and external to the Canongate portfolio. We provide expertise, knowledge resources, human capital, and organizational intelligence to investors and owners.
Principals
The Canongate team possesses a blend of hands-on real estate experience, sophisticated capital markets expertise, in-depth business management, fundamental analytic rigor and long-established but constantly expanding networks of relationships and partnerships across the real estate, financial and business communities.
W. Walker Brock
Partner
Walker Brock has dedicated his career to creating value in a variety of for-profit and non-profit sectors. He is co-founder and Managing Partner of Canongate Companies and has led the firm’s value-add, ethically based business model since formation in 2009.
Walker has been directly involved in the ownership, management or construction of more than half a billion dollars’ worth of real estate transactions along the eastern seaboard. Walker began his career in real estate in the multifamily business at a family-owned firm based in New York that owned an extensive portfolio from Massachussetts to South Carolina.
Since forming Canongate, Walker has been involved in the ownership and development of office projects, light industrial, multifamily, and single family residential. Walker has successfully built multiple service and consumer goods companies from the ground up, in industries from extreme sports to food and beverage and consumer packaged goods.
Walker is a current board member and past Chairman of the Board of Charleston Waterkeeper, a former board member of River Network, a board member of Charleston Horticultural Society and has served in multiple capacities at the Coastal Conservation League and Historic Charleston Foundation.
Walker holds an M.A. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and is a 2018 Fellow of the Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative. Walker continues to seek value-add opportunities in real estate and early-stage consumer goods businesses.
Ben Ludzker
Partner
Ben Ludzker is currently Managing Director of one of the UK’s largest independent medical supplies and training companies, Kays Medical, and a board member of a privately owned retail pharmacy group.
Under Ben’s management, Kays Medical has doubled turnover in the last three years via a growth strategy that included three acquisitions. Ben has direct operational experience across diverse industry types from Food and Beverage, to Real Estate Development and Pharmaceuticals. He has a special interest in early stage start-ups and getting new businesses off the ground with the help of investment capital and know-how.
Ben graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with a degree in Management and is a Member of The Institute of Directors and The British Healthcare Trade Association. Ben is based in London and Liverpool, England.
We invest in organizations that invest in their communities
The Canongate Companies support the arts, health, history, and the environment.
We invest in organizations that help people be their best selves and live their best lives, organizations that protect and preserve our cultural heritage, and organizations that protect and preserve our natural environment.
Health, beauty, authenticity, and sustainability are the guiding principles of the Canongate Companies.