Gray Taylor Law

About Gray Taylor Law

Gray Taylor Law is a Toronto sole practice run by Gray E. Taylor, a barrister and solicitor licensed in Ontario who holds a J.D. and an M.Ed. The practice centers on environmental law, climate change, carbon markets, and energy and resources work for businesses. Taylor's own site describes more than 40 years in law: the first 20 in corporate, commercial, mergers and acquisitions, and finance work across Canada, the United States, and internationally, and the next 20-plus in environmental and climate change work, including emissions trading transactions built on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation rules and later applied to carbon markets in Alberta, under the Western Climate Initiative, and in voluntary carbon trading across North America.

Chambers Global formerly ranked Taylor Band 1 for environmental law and for global climate change work, and formerly listed Taylor as a Senior Statesman in both categories. The firm's site carries the tagline "Godfather of Canadian Climate Change Law." Taylor is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto's School of the Environment, a former chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section, and a former council member of the International Emissions Trading Association, where Taylor also co-chaired the Canadian Working Group. Taylor also represented private sector participants in the World Bank's Umbrella Carbon Fund transaction.