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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jocelyne TardifManager · Distribution | Ernst & Young Inc.Monitor | Nortel Networks CorporationON | 29 Oct 2022 – 31 Aug 2024 | ••• | Motion Record of the Applicants |
| Jocelyne TardifManager · Distribution | Ernst & Young Inc.Monitor | Nortel Networks CorporationON | 29 Oct 2022 – 3 Aug 2024 | ••• | The purpose of this One Hundred Sixty Fourth Report of the… |
| Amna MasudManager | PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.Monitor | 1000843823 Ontario IncON | 9 Jan – 22 Mar 2024 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor |
| Jacob BlairManager | PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.Monitor | 1000843823 Ontario IncON | 9 Jan – 22 Mar 2024 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor |
| Tammy MuradovaManager | PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.Monitor | 1000843823 Ontario IncON | 9 Jan – 22 Mar 2024 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor |
| Kateryna KhanManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 9 Jun 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Marisa CorbettManager, Tax · officers of the court · manager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 9 Jun 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Mu-Shan Martin LinManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 9 Jun 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Heidi ChangManager, Tax · officers of the court · manager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 26 May 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Kateryna KhanManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 26 May 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Marisa CorbettManager, Tax · officers of the court · manager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Express Gold Refining LtdON · closed | to 26 May 2024 | ••• | Twenty First Report of the Monitor .pdf |
| Mu-Shan Martin LinManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Antibe Therapeutics Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record |
| Rose BrownManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Antibe Therapeutics Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record |
| Sumit DaveManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Antibe Therapeutics Inc.ON · closed | — | ••• | Motion Record |
| Christopher KnoxManager | Deloitte Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Sperling GP Ltd., Sperling Limited Partnership and 1112849 B.C. Ltd.BC · closed | 19 Nov – 13 Dec 2024 | ••• | Second Report of the Monitor, June 26, 2025 |
| Tony TrifunovicManager | KSV Restructuring Inc.Monitor | Skylink Express Inc.ON · closed | 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2024 | ••• | Sixth Report of the Monitor dated October 23, 2024 |
| Amna MasudManager | PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., LITMonitor | Harbour Grace Ocean Enterprises Ltd. and Laurenceton Holdings LtdNL · closed | to 19 Apr 2024 | ••• | Supplement to the Fifth Report of the Monitor |
| Tammy MuradovaManager | PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., LITMonitor | Harbour Grace Ocean Enterprises Ltd. and Laurenceton Holdings LtdNL · closed | to 19 Apr 2024 | ••• | Supplement to the Fifth Report of the Monitor |
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.