Biography: Public Procurement

Paul Emanuelli is the general counsel and managing director of the Procurement Law Office. His portfolio focuses on major procurement projects, developing innovative procurement formats, negotiating commercial transactions and advising institutions on the strategic legal aspects of their purchasing operations. Paul also has an extensive track record of public speaking, publishing and training.

Paul is the author of Government Procurement, The Laws of Precision Drafting: A Handbook for Tenders and RFPs and the National Tendering Law Update and the host of the Procurement Law Update webinar series. He is a regular law columnist with the Daily Commercial News and Purchasing b2b magazine and has published dozens of articles, columns and essays for other leading publications.

Paul has trained and presented to thousands of procurement professionals from hundreds of institutions across Canada and internationally, and has a proven track record of successful collaboration with industry-leading training organisations.

Before launching the Procurement Law Office, Paul served 10 years as crown counsel with the Province of Ontario, at Management Board Secretariat and then at Crown Law Office Civil, where he focused on procurement and information technology transactions and chaired the government's Procurement Lawyers Group. During that time he also served as chair of the Ontario Bar Association's public sector lawyers section, and as a board member of both the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group and the Canadian IT Law Association.

Paul graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1993 and a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1996. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1998.