Wayne D. Gray
PartnerWayne Gray has more than 48 years of experience as a corporate-commercial lawyer. His practice is in corporate law and not-for-profit law. He advises on the duties and liabilities of directors and officers, corporate governance and private mergers and acquisitions, and provides expert evidence in those fields. He is the primary author of Gray's Commentaries on federal and Ontario corporate law and of the other looseleaf works listed under Publications.
He held leadership roles at every stage of the reform of not-for-profit corporate law, federally in the work that led to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act and in Ontario in the work that led to the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010. He also had roles in the creation of Ontario's Securities Transfer Act, 2006, since adopted in every province and territory and closely adapted in Québec; in the repeal of Ontario's Bulk Sales Act; in amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act and to Ontario's Business Corporations Act, Personal Property Security Act, Execution Act and Limitations Act, 2002; and in the Uniform Law Conference of Canada's draft uniform legislation on income trusts and on trust indentures.
He consults with the federal government on corporate law and policy, and gives expert evidence in solicitor's misfeasance cases and on Canadian law in international commercial arbitrations.
He was the Canadian Bar Association's delegate to the Uniform Law Conference of Canada from 2006 to 2013. He chaired the Ontario Bar Association's Corporate Law Subcommittee from 2004 to 2012 and its Business Law Section in 2012–13, and served on the executive of the Canadian Bar Association's Business Law Section in 2012–13. He has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Business Law Journal since 2005. For the Law Society of Ontario he wrote or co-wrote three chapters of the Business Law Licensing Examination materials, on corporate changes, the domestic and international sale of goods, and the purchase and sale of a private business.
From 2013 to 2021 he was Practice Lead, Corporate and M&A, at Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, and was the first person hired to build Practical Law Canada. He was earlier a partner in the corporate-commercial group of Miller Thomson LLP and in the business law group of McMillan LLP.