Neill May

Neill May is a partner, a member of the Executive Committee and a former Co-Chair of the Corporate Securities Group at Goodmans. His practice focuses on all aspects of securities law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Neill has developed a reputation for expertise in securities law and for his ability to negotiate and complete complex and innovative transactions.

Neill has counselled participants in numerous public and private M&A transactions and has represented clients on both sides of friendly and hostile takeover bids. He has also structured and implemented a vast range of corporate reorganizations and financing transactions, including domestic and cross-border public offerings, and private strategic and venture capital financings.

Neill is named 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law by Best Lawyers in Canada and “Global Elite Thought Leader” for M&A by Lexology Index. He is recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as most frequently recommended in corporate finance & securities, M&A, corporate commercial, corporate mid-market, and consistently recommended for private equity and mining law. He has also been recommended by The Lexpert 500 (corporate commercial, corporate finance, corporate mid-market, M&A, and private equity), Chambers Global (corporate/M&A and private equity: buyouts), Chambers Canada (corporate/commercial and private equity: buyouts), Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers, IFLR1000 (M&A), Lexology Index (capital markets & thought leader in M&A), The Legal 500 Canada (M&A), The Best Lawyers in Canada (cannabis, corporate, leveraged buyouts & private equity, M&A, mining, natural resources, private funds and securities). He is also featured as a leading practitioner in the Lexpert Special Edition: Finance, the Lexpert Special Edition: M&A, and the Lexpert Special Edition: Mining.

Neill is a former member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Listing Advisory Committee and the Ontario Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee and Small Business Advisory Committee. Neill is a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto - Faculty of Law.

Neill is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.