Alfred Apps

In 1993, he withdrew from the partnership on being named CEO of The Lehndorff Group (an international commercial real estate firm with assets in Canada, the United States and Europe), where he led a 47-lender $1 billion debt restructuring and oversaw the creation of one of Canada's first Real Estate Investment Trusts; ResREIT which merged into CAPREIT in 2004.

Apps has been recognized as a leading counsel in the area of restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment and infrastructure finance.

[15] While studying law, he was a speechwriter for David Peterson, then Leader of the Opposition in Ontario, as well as for several cabinet ministers in the last Canadian government led by Pierre Trudeau.

[16] Apps ran as a Liberal in his home riding of Oxford in the federal elections of both 1984 and 1988 but was defeated by the long-serving Progressive Conservative incumbent, Bruce Halliday, losing by less than 3% of vote in 1988.

He has played a key role in recruiting a number of prominent Liberal politicians into public life including former Prime Minister Paul Martin,[17][18] former Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff[19] and the first female black Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, Jean Augustine.

[22] He was succeeded by Mike Crawley who was elected in a very competitive 5-way race, defeating former Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps.

In addition to being a longtime member of the Huron University College Corporation, Apps served as Chair of the Foundation Board for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in 2006–2007.