André Louw

Andre is Black Maple's Managing Partner in Canada, leading audit and assurance engagements from Toronto and Ottawa under Canadian Auditing Standards. His focus is public and near-public companies: TSX and TSX-V issuers, companies preparing for a listing, and Canadian subsidiaries of international groups. That means the areas where junior teams get into difficulty, section 3061 and mineral property accounting, flow-through share renunciation, going concern at exploration stage, and the continuous disclosure obligations that follow a listing.

Before Canada he spent his career in listed audit at Mazars, Grant Thornton and PKF, working on AIM and Main Market entities and the reporting scrutiny that comes with them. Few auditors have signed off under both ISA (UK) and CAS, which is why cross-border groups reporting into two regulators tend to find their way to him. At Mazars he was also involved in the design and build of audit software from scratch, leading the team across the UK and the firm's head office in France. Deep listed-audit experience on two continents, plus hands-on involvement in designing the tools auditors use, shapes how we run engagements at Black Maple. Outside work he plays rugby, which is where most of his Montreal client introductions have come from.