Faulhaber Communications, the Toronto-based integrated agency, acquired Jane Gill PR in a transaction announced January 2025. Terms were not disclosed. The deal brings 15 luxury and hospitality accounts into Faulhaber's portfolio and adds Gill's Vancouver presence to a firm that has historically operated from a single Ontario office.
Jane Gill founded her eponymous practice in 2012 after a decade at agencies including North Strategic. Her client roster includes hotel properties in British Columbia and Alberta, three resort developments, and several premium food and beverage brands concentrated in Western Canada. Gill will join Faulhaber as Senior Vice President of Luxury and Hospitality, reporting to co-founder Chris Faulhaber. Her four-person team transitions intact. Faulhaber now employs 47 people across two cities.
The acquisition solves two problems Faulhaber has faced since 2021. First, the firm's luxury practice has been staffed through freelance senior counsel rather than a permanent vertical lead—a structure that works for consumer packaged goods but signals execution risk to hospitality developers who expect 24-month pre-opening campaigns with embedded regional expertise. Second, Faulhaber's Eastern Canada footprint has limited its ability to service hotel projects and ski-resort repositionings in Whistler, Banff, and the Okanagan, where Chinese and Californian capital has driven CAD 4.2 billion in luxury real estate and hospitality investment since 2019. Gill's network in those markets is the asset being purchased, not just her billings.
Luxury hospitality PR has bifurcated sharply in Canada over the past three years. On one side sit the global networks—Edelman, Porter Novelli—which win RFPs from multinational hotel groups but staff accounts with junior generalists rotating every 18 months. On the other sit independents like Jane Gill PR, which offer senior-level continuity but lack the integrated digital, influencer, and paid-media capabilities that ownership groups increasingly require as table stakes. Faulhaber's model—formerly an independent, now owned by a private equity-backed holding structure since its 2023 recapitalization—sits in the middle. It has the balance sheet to acquire specialists and the operational scale to bundle earned, paid, and creator relations into a single retainer. This deal signals that the firm intends to consolidate smaller luxury independents rather than compete head-to-head with the networks.
Operators and allocators should watch for three follow-on moves in the next six to nine months. First, whether Faulhaber opens a physical Vancouver office or keeps Gill's team remote, which will indicate how serious the firm is about West Coast origination versus mere account servicing. Second, whether additional luxury acquisitions follow, particularly in experiential or family-office advisory, where fragmented independents are common and valuations remain compressed. Third, whether any of Gill's existing clients were already in conflict with Faulhaber's portfolio—if so, which accounts stayed and which were quietly resigned will reveal whose revenue the firm prioritized.
Faulhaber has now made three acquisitions since its 2023 recapitalization. The holding structure behind it has not been named, but the velocity and sector focus—luxury, B2B, healthcare—suggest a communications roll-up strategy targeting CAD 25-50 million in combined revenue before an exit or secondary sale. Gill's addition gives the firm a credible luxury story to tell in that process.
The takeaway
Faulhaber's acquisition of Jane Gill PR consolidates Canadian luxury hospitality PR and signals further independent roll-ups before a likely exit event.
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