Mary L. Flynn-Guglietti

First Year of Call
1983 (ON)

Areas of Practice
Real Estate

Description
Counsel, Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development

Mary Flynn-Guglietti is one of Canada’s leading municipal land use planning and property development lawyers with over 30 years’ experience in the practice of administrative law, municipal law, commercial real estate law, environmental law and expropriation law. She acts for developers, ratepayers and municipalities on major construction and infrastructure projects. Mary has extensive experience obtaining approvals of citywide and site-specific official plan amendments, rezonings, subdivision approvals, severances and minor variances. She leads the firm’s Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development Group.

Appearing before various committees of adjustment, committees of council and numerous municipal councils throughout the province of Ontario, Mary has particular expertise in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). She represents clients before the Ontario Land Tribunal and the courts of Ontario on appeal, and has also appeared before the Court of justice (Criminal Division), the former District Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Divisional Court.

Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2021) as a leading lawyer in real estate law and in the 2020 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as consistently recommended in the area of property development, Mary writes and speaks extensively on environmental, municipal and land use planning law for the Ontario Bar Association, Insight Seminars, the Canadian Institute and the Law Society of Ontario.

Mary is president of the C. Dennis Flynn Foundation and past president of the Etobicoke Centre Progressive Conservative Riding Association. She serves on the board of the Annual Catholic Missions Gala. Mary is also a member of the national public affairs firm McMillan Vantage Policy Group.