Former Watergate investigator joins Avison Young

Legendary commercial real estate executive Stephen Leopold has returned to his Quebec roots.
Avison Young announced Tuesday that Leopold has been appointed chair of the brokerage firm's Quebec operations.
Leopold, whose career spans four decades, will advise on strategy and growth in the Quebec marketplace.
In the 1970s, he served as an investigator on U.S. Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee, which investigated former president Richard Nixon. In the 1980s, Leopold, a Montreal native, acted as executive assistant to Brian Mulroney during a successful Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign that helped him become prime minister.
Leopold's many commercial real estate career highlights include serving as vice-president of Canada's largest mortgage bank, now known as RBC Capital; forming his own firm, Montreal-based Leopold Property Consultants, which became the largest North American company to represent corporate users of space; and conceiving and creating Skymarkets in the World Trade Center. In 2002, he was appointed chairman of William B. May International in New York, which was founded in 1866 and ranks as one of North America's oldest brokerages.
Avison Young chair and CEO Mark Rose says Leopold's appointment is part of the company's aggressive expansion plan and demonstrates its increasingly significant presence in North America.
Leopold will be based in Avison Young's Montreal office.