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Your first-counsel offer isn’t competing with another fund. It’s competing with a partnership track the candidate has been running toward for six years. That’s the…
It’s a familiar problem at a growing investment firm: seventy or so people, a growing contract pile, a compliance exam on the horizon, and budget…
Retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) look simple from the outside. Products go out, cash comes in. Then you open the books and go looking…
Search “average general counsel salary Toronto” and you’ll get a number around $200,000. For a 60-person fund, it’s the wrong number twice over. Too high…
Most owners hire finance roles reactively. A payroll error, a botched month-end, a lender asking for statements nobody can produce. Then a panicked hire. Companies…
A 40-person advisory shop can carry the same regulatory obligations as a bank fifty times its size. The registration category is the same. The filing…
Two Toronto companies call the same week. Both say the same thing: “We need a real estate lawyer in-house.” One is a developer putting shovels…
A 30-person fund can generate more legal work than a 500-person manufacturer. That surprises people. The manufacturer has HR files, supplier contracts, and the occasional…
The month QuickBooks finally breaks, you don’t just need an accountant. You need one who has survived a migration before, because your books are the…
A junior explorer on the TSX Venture Exchange has accounting problems most controllers will never see in a career: capitalized exploration costs, flow-through share financings,…
