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The general counsel resigned on Tuesday. By Friday, someone in finance asks whether the company can sign a supplier renewal that expires next week, and…
When a Burlington manufacturer needs a controller, or a mid-size law firm in Hamilton needs a litigation associate, the search usually starts fine and falls…
The management letter is on the table. The board has asked for a remediation plan, and there’s a date attached to it. Somewhere in the…
Eight weeks after close, here’s what’s on the table. Two hundred customer contracts carry change-of-control clauses that may need consent or novation. Three employment agreements…
Somewhere in your business last quarter, a commercial agreement got signed without anyone in legal looking at it. Not because it was low-risk. Because sending…
A Toronto mid-sized firm decides it wants a real corporate practice. Not the one partner who happens to do corporate work between other files, but…
An investor asks a casual question near the end of a board meeting: “So, when are you bringing in a CFO?” The founder hears a…
Most Hamilton employers start a finance search believing they’ve already lost. They picture Bay Street salaries, assume the best people will always chase them, and…
Here’s a pattern worth naming, because it costs Mississauga employers good people every year. A finance role opens in Mississauga. Someone pulls a downtown Toronto…
Most senior finance searches don’t fail in week seven. They fail in week zero, before anyone has even been approached. At Minted Search Group, that’s…
