Cole & Partners is one of Canada’s leading independent financial advisory practices. Since our establishment in 1975, we have earned a reputation for candid opinions and clear, practical, solutions to complex financial and business issues. We provide a broad range of financial advisory services and specialize in Business Valuation, Financial Litigation Support, Corporate Financial Advisory, and Forensic and Investigative Accounting.
Our team comprises seasoned professionals with a broad range of complementary skills and financial advisory experience from a wide range of disciplines, including Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analysts, Chartered Business Valuators, investigative and forensic accountants, engineering and economics professionals. Our support staff is highly skilled and integral to the practice.
Our expertise reflects experience in many industries across a number of financial advisory service lines - from M&A transactions to valuations to litigation matters for a range of clients and their professional advisors - as well as comprehensive investigative and forensic experience in both the public and private companies and the public sector. More than 20 professionals provide practical solutions and insights to difficult financial questions. Our Partners have broad transaction and courtroom experience and are recognized experts. Whether the engagement team is large or small, clients receive the benefit of our firm’s infrastructure and organizational skills to successfully manage matters that are both time-sensitive and of critical importance.
Our work is distinguished by an integrated approach which reflects the firm’s wide-ranging experience and expertise, incorporating real world business judgment and current thinking and benchmarks from business valuation, M&A and corporate finance, litigation experience – all supported by strong technology.
Our Partners are hands on and actively supported by the professional staff. The people you first meet will be actively involved in the assignment throughout. Our reports are highly focused and minimize the use of jargon. They distill complex financial issues into clear summaries and graphics. At the outset we ensure common expectations with respect to timing, fees, and the style of report, if required. In M&A and corporate finance advisory engagements, common expectations as to process, time line, likely price, terms and result must also be ensured.
We serve a diverse client base, from large, publicly-traded companies, to private firms, early stage technology start-ups, legal and accounting firms; entrepreneurial families; individuals and senior executives; Boards of Directors and Special Committees and legal and other professional advisors to each.