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VIA EDGAR

 

February 17, 2017

 

Re:                             Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Brookfield Finance Inc., and Brookfield Finance LLC

Registration Statement on Form F-10 and Form F-3

File No. 333-215992

 

Division of Corporation Finance

Office of International Corporate Finance

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

 

To Whom It May Concern:

 

On behalf of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., an Ontario corporation, Brookfield Finance Inc., an Ontario corporation, and Brookfield Finance LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (collectively, the “Companies”), enclosed is the final receipt issued by the Ontario Securities Commission with respect to the Companies’ Registration Statement on Form F-10 and Form F-3 (File No. 333-215992) (as amended to date, the “Registration Statement”).  I hereby request that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declare the Registration Statement effective as of 9:30 a.m., New York time, on February 21, 2017, or as soon as possible thereafter.

 

If the Staff has any questions, please contact Mile Kurta, Esq., of Torys LLP at (212) 880-6363.

 

 

Enclosure

 


 

Sincerely,

 

BROOKFIELD ASSET MANAGEMENT INC.

 

By:

/s/ Brian D. Lawson

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Brian D. Lawson

 

 

Title: Senior Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer

 

 


 

Ontario Securities Commission

Commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario

22nd Floor

20 Queen Street West

Toronto ON M5H 3S8

22e étage

20, rue queen ouest

Toronto ON M5H 3S8

 

RECEIPT

 

Brookfield Asset Management Inc.

Brookfield Finance Inc.

Brookfield Finance LLC

 

This is the receipt of the Ontario Securities Commission for the Short Form Base Shelf Prospectus of the above Issuer dated February 17, 2017 (the prospectus).

 

The prospectus has been filed under Multilateral Instrument 11-102 Passport System in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. A receipt for the prospectus is deemed to be issued by the regulator in each of those jurisdictions, if the conditions of the Instrument have been satisfied.

 

February 17, 2017

 

 

 

 

Huston Loke

 

 

 

Huston Loke

 

Director, Corporate Finance Branch

 

 

 

 

 

SEDAR Project # 2582877, 2582878, 2582880