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M&A opportunities and challenges in the COVID-19 era

COVID-19 changed our world overnight as it quickly evolved from a global health crisis to a global economic crisis. Countries around the world closed non-essential businesses and pressed pause on their economies in order to stop, or at least slow, the spread of the novel coronavirus. A global pandemic was always going to be bad […]

Don’t be fooled: HR law compliance is a finance issue, too

Virtually every CEO would agree that employment law non-compliance, a failure to take workplace harassment seriously, and the general flouting of accepted human resources standards, is unacceptable. Building workplaces free of anti-social behaviour isn’t just an aspirational goal, it’s a basic legal requirement in every province in Canada. That’s especially so in Ontario, which has […]

The right way to negotiate the sale of your business

Forget the trials and tribulations of starting and growing a business. Many entrepreneurs learn that the true challenge comes when they move to negotiate the sale of their company. There are a plethora of reasons, but the most daunting involve considerations such as valuation (what the business is worth), the competitive marketplace (the number of […]