Corporate Restructuring & Gaming Advisory

Mitigate risk. Protect value. Command the facts. Control the narrative.

As a premier corporate restructuring and advisory firm, Ethos Advisory treats every situation with equal importance while understanding that each matter is bespoke. Ethos Advisory works with companies to navigate challenges, identify opportunities, and implement practical solutions with the goal of reaching the best possible results for all stakeholders.

Canada-wide practice Court officer appointments Designated Finance & Restructuring Professionals Licensed Insolvency Trustees

When to Engage

For moments when delay narrows options.

Stakeholder pressure is increasing

Stakeholder expectations are escalating. Boards demand accountability, lenders seek enhanced reporting, vendors tighten credit terms, employees seek stability, and customers expect uninterrupted operations.

Clarify performance, options, and stakeholder expectations.

Liquidity is tightening

Cash flow, working capital, payables, or debt service obligations are constraining the operating runway.

Stabilize the facts and assess practical restructuring paths.

Stakeholders need confidence

Management, lenders, investors, counsel, or regulators need credible information before decisions can move forward.

Provide objective review, monitoring, and communication support.

A formal path may be required

A business may need to consider a proposal, receivership, bankruptcy, CCAA proceeding, or court-supervised process.

Support formal and informal restructuring mandates.

About Ethos

Clear advice before a difficult situation becomes disorderly.

As a corporate restructuring and advisory firm, Ethos provides practical, timely advice to companies and their stakeholders, identifying opportunities, finding solutions, and driving results.

Ethos works diligently with companies, business owners, lenders, family offices, private equity firms, government and regulatory bodies, lawyers, and other stakeholders on various mandates, including but not limited to the following:

Ethos Advisory is a reliable advisory and restructuring firm in Canada with deep restructuring, insolvency, and gaming experience.

Practical advice Structured for action, not process.
Timely action Speed matters when options narrow.
Durable outcomes Built to hold up under scrutiny.

Mandates

Advisory roles built to mitigate risk and protect value.

Ethos supports companies and stakeholders when they need reliable information, creditor confidence, lender alignment, restructuring options, or interim leadership during a critical period.

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Stakeholder Management / Crisis Management

Ethos supports companies, boards, lenders, counsel, and other stakeholders when urgent decisions, communications, and stabilization measures need to move in sequence.

Who it helps

Companies, business owners, lenders, boards, counsel, and stakeholders facing urgent pressure.

Typical outcome

Clear priorities, steadier communications, and a practical path through the immediate crisis.

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Industry Experience

Sector fluency when the details change the outcome.

Practical advice across viability assessments, corporate reorganizations, and debt restructuring, with sector context that helps stakeholders move faster and avoid generic answers.

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Automotive

Auto dealerships and suppliers face floorplan financing, inventory exposure, OEM obligations, and significant fixed overhead. Ethos helps businesses stabilize liquidity, restructure obligations, and protect critical dealer and supplier relationships.

Liquidity Dealer relationships

Leadership

Senior professionals for consequential moments.

Engagements are led by experienced restructuring, insolvency, advisory, and operating professionals who understand the pressure on management teams, lenders, counsel, and other stakeholders.

Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director

Clark Lonergan

CPA, CA · CIRP, LIT

Senior restructuring professional with more than 25 years of restructuring, insolvency, and regulated gaming advisory experience.

Senior Managing Director

Evan MacKinnon

CFA · CIRP, LIT

Over 10 years advising on restructuring, insolvency, corporate finance, capital raising, and distressed financing engagements.

Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director

Richard Goldhar

B.Comm. · CIRP, LIT

Corporate restructuring, formal and informal insolvency proceedings, and advisory mandates across Canada.

Chief Operating Officer

Marlene Oilgisser

CPA, CA

Extensive experience across operational, strategic, advisory, and hands-on leadership mandates.

Insolvency Cases

Formal case materials,
organized for stakeholders.

Formal corporate insolvency licenses are held by our sister company, Goldhar & Associates Ltd. Stakeholders looking for current formal insolvency engagement materials should use the Goldhar corporate engagements archive.

Case archive status

Goldhar archive

The Ethos site keeps this reference clear while directing formal case materials to the existing Goldhar corporate engagements landing page.

View formal case materials

Contact Us

Let us know how we can help.

Use the form to identify the mandate type, share the key facts, and route the inquiry to the right senior professional.

  • Inquiries reviewed by a senior Ethos professional
  • Topic selector helps direct the request to the appropriate team member
  • Sensitive materials can be shared through the appropriate engagement process