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 bar and its three figures are for subscribers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adsaran VithiyananthanSenior Consultant · officers of the court · associate | FTI Consulting Canada Inc.Monitor | Fire & FlowerON | 1 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025 | ••• | Ninth Report of the Monitor |
| Adsaran VithiyananthanSenior Consultant · officers of the court · associate | FTI Consulting Canada Inc.Monitor | Fire & FlowerON | 1 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025 | ••• | Ninth Report of the Monitor |
| Shady KhodairSenior Staff · officers of the court · associate · Tax Reporting | Ernst & Young Inc.Monitor | Nortel Networks CorporationON | 31 Aug 2024 – 31 Dec 2025 | ••• | One Hundred Sixty Fifth Report of the Monitor |
| Jennifer YeConsultant · officers of the court · associate | Duff & PhelpsMonitor | Chesswood Group LimitedON | 1 Aug – 31 Aug 2025 | ••• | Supplementary Motion Record of the Monitor (Stay Extension… |
| Jennifer YeConsultant · officers of the court · associate | FTI Consulting Canada Inc.Monitor | Chesswood Group LimitedON | 1 Aug – 31 Aug 2025 | ••• | Supplement to the Eighth Report of the Monitor |
| Jennifer YeConsultant · officers of the court · associate | FTI Consulting Canada Inc.Monitor | Fire & FlowerON | 1 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025 | ••• | Ninth Report of the Monitor |
| Jennifer YeConsultant · officers of the court · associate | FTI Consulting Canada Inc.Monitor | Fire & FlowerON | 1 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025 | ••• | Ninth Report of the Monitor |
| Jessica JingweiAssociate | Ernst & Young Inc.Monitor | VBI GroupON · closed | — | ••• | Motion for the CCAA Termination Order |
| Samantha ArmesSr. Analyst · officers of the court · associate | BDO Canada LimitedMonitor | Earth Boring Co. LimitedON · closed | 16 Aug – 31 Aug 2025 | ••• | Fourth Report of the Monitor |
| Samantha ArmesSenior Analyst · officers of the court · associate | BDO Canada LimitedMonitor | Earth Boring Co. LimitedON · closed | 19 Jul – 31 Aug 2025 | ••• | Fourth Report of the Monitor |
| Sally BaoSenior Analyst · officers of the court · associate | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Sperling GP Ltd., Sperling Limited Partnership and 1112849 B.C. Ltd.BC · closed | 1 May – 6 Jun 2025 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor, June 26, 2025 |
| Sally BaoSenior Analyst · officers of the court · associate | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Sperling GP Ltd., Sperling Limited Partnership and 1112849 B.C. Ltd.BC · closed | 1 Mar – 30 Apr 2025 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor, June 26, 2025 |
| Sally BaoSenior Analyst · officers of the court · associate | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Sperling GP Ltd., Sperling Limited Partnership and 1112849 B.C. Ltd.BC · closed | 1 Feb – 28 Feb 2025 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor, June 26, 2025 |
| Sally BaoSenior Analyst · officers of the court · associate | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Sperling GP Ltd., Sperling Limited Partnership and 1112849 B.C. Ltd.BC · closed | 14 Dec 2024 – 31 Jan 2025 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor, June 26, 2025 |
| Robert FergusonSenior · officers of the court · associate | Ernst & Young Inc.Monitor | Donnelly Holdings Ltd, et al.BC · closed | 11 Apr 2023 – 17 Sep 2025 | ••• | Affidavit #1 of M. Bell |
What a bill looks likeBenchmarks
Measured across the recordThe blended rate, stated
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
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.