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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan JoffeSenior Manager · officers of the court · director · Email review | KSV Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Urbancorp GroupON | 1 Jan – 31 Mar 2019 | ••• | Twenty-First Report of the Monitor dated April 24, 2019 |
| Noah GoldsteinSr. Manager · officers of the court · director · All aspects of mandate | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | Generx (Byward Hall) Inc.ON · closed | 29 May – 31 Aug 2017 | ••• | First Report of the Receiver dated October 5, 2017 |
| Jordan WongDirector · All aspects of mandate | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | 111 Sherwood Investments Inc.ON · closed | to 31 Dec 2024 | ••• | Second Report of the Receiver dated January 21, 2025 |
| Jordan WongDirector | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | Sam M (180 SAW) LP Inc. and Sam M (180 SAW) Inc.ON · closed | 4 Jun – 30 Nov 2024 | ••• | Third Report of the Receiver dated December 10, 2024 |
| Jordan WongDirector | KSV Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Skylink Express Inc.ON · closed | 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2024 | ••• | Sixth Report of the Monitor dated October 23, 2024 |
| Jordan WongDirector · All aspects of mandate | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | 111 Sherwood Investments Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record of the Receiver dated January 21, 2025 - Part… |
| Dean PerlmanSenior Manager · officers of the court · director · All aspects of mandate | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | Green World Construction Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record of the Receiver dated November 26, 2025 |
| Jordan WongDirector · All aspects of mandate | KSV Restructuring Inc.Receiver | Green World Construction Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record of the Receiver dated November 26, 2025 |
| Ross GrahamSenior Manager · officers of the court · director | KSV Restructuring Inc.Capacity not stated | 2597427 Alberta Ltd.AB · closed | — | ••• | Fee Affidavit of J. Knight sworn July 6, 2026 |
| Jordan WongDirector | KSV Restructuring Inc.Monitor | B+H Architects Corp.ON | 16 Jan – 30 Apr 2026 | ••• | Fifth Report of the Monitor dated May 22, 2026 |
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.