Twelve weeks in. Three shortlists, two candidates who reached a second round, and still an empty chair. The recruiter’s read is the one you’ve heard…
Somewhere in Brampton right now, a distribution company is opening its fourth finance search in two years. Same seat, more or less. The last one…
Hiring accountants in Ontario shouldn’t be this hard. Eight weeks in, two dozen applications, none of them close. The role’s still open, the team’s picking…
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…
