Marc McAree, BA (Hons.), LLB, MES, is a Law Society of Ontario certified specialist in environmental law. He assists clients in managing environmental risks and liabilities while limiting clients’ reputational risk. He brings environmental law expertise to contaminated land/brownfields clean ups, environmental aspects of transactions, environmental insurance, environmental compliance, environmental approval and order appeals, and defence of environmental prosecutions and environmental civil actions. He is recognized for his excellence in advocating for clients in environmental civil litigation at all levels of Ontario courts, his defence of clients against environmental regulatory prosecutions, and his appearances before Ontario’s Land Tribunal and other administrative decision-makers on appeals and at hearings. He is named in The 2024 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading Top 500 Lawyers in Canada. He is named by Best Lawyers 2019 as “Lawyer of the Year” for Toronto environmental law and is selected annually by Best Lawyers for environmental law and municipal law. He is ranked as a global leader in WWL: Environment and a national leader in WWL Canada: Environment.
