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…
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…
The search took six months. You wrote the job description, screened the shortlist, negotiated the offer, and finally got a signature. That was the hard…
You can pressure-test a CFO candidate in an afternoon. Hand them your model, watch how they stress the assumptions, and you’ll know within an hour…
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…
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…
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…
