Liam McNeely
Senior Associate
Liam is a Senior Associate at Paris & Sayer LLP. He represents individuals and corporate clients in a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, including contentious disputes between shareholders, director and officer liability claims, breaches of partnership agreements, oppression matters, and fraud. Liam is also experienced in litigating professional negligence claims for and against accountants, investment advisors, and real estate professionals. He leads the firm’s employment practice and regularly litigates employment disputes on behalf of both employers and employees.
Liam has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. He has made submissions to all levels of court in Ontario, including the Divisional Court and Court of Appeal. Liam regularly counsels clients through complex civil procedures, arbitrations, and mediations.
Since 2024, Liam has been an Executive Committee Member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Civil Litigation section. In 2025, he co-chaired the section’s working group, which reviewed and responded to the procedural reforms that Attorney General Doug Downey and Chief Justice Morawetz have proposed in the Civil Rules Review. Toronto Lawyers’ Association has certified him as a specialist in its Advanced Skills for Civil Litigation program.
Liam received his B.A. (with honours) from Carleton University, majoring in law and political science with a specialization in international relations, before obtaining his Juris Doctor from Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law. Liam then completed his integrated practice curriculum at Paris & Sayer LLP and was called to the bar by the Law Society of Ontario in 2017.
Outside of the office, Liam enjoys a good game of puck and getting out for a sail on Lake Ontario.
LIAM’S Notable Decisions
Successfully resolved a partnership dispute involving the failed exercise of a right of first refusal and subsequent application to dissolve a partnership and appoint a Sales Officer to liquidate the partnership, which allowed our client to sell its interest for fair market value and avoid potential foreclosure proceedings (unreported, 2021).
Acted on the Commercial List for a corporate partner in a multi-party dispute over the enforcement of a right of first refusal within a partnership agreement after a third party offered to purchase our client’s shares. The Court ordered the transaction to proceed (2020 ONSC 1139).
Successfully defended a Mareva injunction that would have frozen our client’s assets and bank accounts (2018 ONSC 6921).
While acting for an employer, wholly resolved the issues in an OHSA-related application to the Ontario Labour Relations Board, thereby avoiding the cost of a multi-day hearing (2019 CanLII 91321).
Successfully represented an applicant employee seeking damages for unpaid commissions before the Ontario Labour Relations Board by persuading the Board that the employer’s practices and a formula in the employment agreement entitled the employee to larger commissions than the employer had paid (2018 CanLII 117085).
Acted on behalf of two partners in a family law firm involved in a contentious partnership dissolution with a third partner, including successfully resisting several interlocutory motions later upheld by the Divisional Court and Court of Appeal (unreported, 2019).
