What the professionals charged
3,597 bills from 234 firms on 874 matters · 9,084 stated hourly rates · as the filings state them
The rate ladder, drawn to scaleThe ladder
CAD · standard rates · drawn at 12 or moreOfficers of the court
Each bar runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile of the stated standard hourly rates in the band, with the median marked; the three figures beside it are those. One observation per person per rate, Canadian dollars, undiscounted, on matters with no recognition proceeding.A band with fewer than 12 observations draws nothing.
| Person | Firm | Case | Period | Rate ▲ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly NiebergallCounsel · counsel · associate | Stikeman Elliott LLPInformation officer's counsel | Pier 1 Imports, Inc.ON | 12 Feb – 5 Oct 2020 | ••• | Sixth Report of the Information Officer (October 8, 2020) |
| Brent LewisCounsel · counsel · associate | Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLPMonitor's counsel | NextPoint Financial Inc.BC · closed | — | ••• | Affidavit #1 of Lisa Hiebert |
| Brent LewisCounsel · counsel · associate | Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLPMonitor's counsel | Pure Gold Mining Inc.BC · closed | — | ••• | Affidavit of Kibben Jackson sworn July 14, 2023 |
| Braek UrquhartCounsel · called 2016 · counsel · associate | Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLPReceiver's counsel | Chancery (Oshawa) The Bartlett Limited Partnership and Chancery (Oshawa) the Bartlett GP Inc.ON · closed | 1 Mar – 31 Mar 2026 | ••• | Supplement to the 4th Report dated April 6, 2026 |
| Stephanie Ben-IshaiAssociate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPCounsel, client not stated | Urbancorp GroupON | 1 Aug – 31 Oct 2021 | ••• | Fiftieth Report of the Monitor dated November 22, 2021 |
| Carolin JumaaAssociate | Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLPReceiver's counsel | Green World Construction Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record of the Receiver dated November 26, 2025 |
| Ioana HancasLawyer · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPCounsel, client not stated | Urbancorp Management Inc.ON | 1 Nov 2022 – 28 Feb 2023 | ••• | Second Report as Trustee dated March 16, 2023 |
| Ioana HancasLawyer · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPMonitor's counsel | Urbancorp GroupON | 1 Mar – 30 Jun 2022 | ••• | Fifty-Second Report of the Monitor dated July 20, 2022 |
| Ioana HancasCounsel · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPMonitor's counsel | Urbancorp GroupON | 1 Nov 2021 – 28 Feb 2022 | ••• | Fifty-First Report of the Monitor dated March 22, 2022 |
| Ioana HancasLawyer · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPMonitor's counsel | Urbancorp GroupON | — | ••• | Fifty-Sixth Report of the Monitor dated March 16, 2023 |
| D. ElderCounsel · counsel · associate | Stikeman Elliott LLPCounsel, client not stated | Laurentian University of SudburyON · closed | 1 Jan – 1 Jul 2022 | ••• | 018 Seventeenth Report of the Monitor (Part 2 of 3) |
| Ioana HancasLawyer · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPCounsel, client not stated | Urbancorp Management Inc.ON | 1 Nov 2022 – 28 Feb 2023 | ••• | Second Report as Trustee dated March 16, 2023 |
| Ioana HancasLawyer · counsel · associate | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLPMonitor's counsel | Urbancorp GroupON | — | ••• | Fifty-Sixth Report of the Monitor dated March 16, 2023 |
What a bill looks likeBenchmarks
Measured across the recordA partner's hour
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median of each bill's top standard rate, 2026, over 178 bills; 195 in 2025
The blended rate, stated
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median of the average hourly rates filings state outright, counsel, over 945 bills. A further 74 bills state fees and hours and no rate; that quotient is kept as its own series and never mixed in.
Counsel by year of call
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median standard rate by years since call — 0-4 years (224), 5-9 years (151), 10-19 years (212), 20+ years (264)
Where the rates are
3,597 bills
monitor 591 · receiver 1,013 · interim receiver 38 · trustee 64 · …
Who bills these estatesWho bills
Named in the filings- KSV Restructuring Inc.354
- Deloitte Restructuring Inc.191
- MNP Ltd.182
- FTI Consulting Canada Inc.181
- Ernst & Young Inc.136
- Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP129
- BDO Canada Limited122
- Aird & Berlis LLP103
- Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc.91
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.74
- Grant Thornton Limited67
- Dentons Canada LLP62
Bills, counted one per firm per period however many filings restate it. 234 firms appear in the record; these are the 12 with the most.
How to read thisMethod
The frame. Every figure here comes from a fee affidavit, a passing of accounts, a motion record or an officer's report that a court file holds — fees that were filed for approval, which skews to the larger, longer and more contested mandates. It is not a survey of all insolvency work.
The series. The ladder and the tiles use standard hourly rates of named people, in Canadian dollars, on bills with no courtesy discount and on matters with no recognition proceeding. Discounted bills, stated averages and the rare bill that states fees and hours but no rate are kept as separate series and never mixed in. Nothing is drawn from fewer than 12 observations.
What it is not. A court does not test a bill by hours × rate; it asks what value was delivered (Bank of Nova Scotia v. Diemer, 2014 ONCA 851). This page shows what comparable mandates charged, never what a bill should have been. The record holds sixteen Québec fee documents and no French rate tables; it is not a benchmark for Québec.
Every fact carries its document. Each bill and each rate links to the filing that states it; each benchmark cell can be traced to the rates it was computed from through the rates view.