Lawyer Profile

Biography

Katryna Vergis-Mayo (she/her/hers) is an associate in the Municipal, Planning & Environmental Group at Cassels. Katy’s practice focuses primarily on municipal and planning law, in addition to expropriation matters. Katy gained valuable insight into the complex issues of municipal and planning law during her time working at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. She is a member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Canadian Institute of Planners. While completing her law degree at the University of Windsor, Katy served as the president of the Windsor Municipal and Planning Law Association, which held numerous events related to prevalent issues in the field. Katy was also the recipient of several municipal/land use planning awards while at Windsor Law including the Max N. Mousseau, Q.C., Memorial Award in Municipal Law, the R. Lawrence DeShield Memorial Award in Municipal Law Studies, the Kellerman Family Bursaries, and the Morris D. Baker Scholarship in Honour of Armando DeLuca. Prior to law school, Katy graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University with a Bachelor’s in Urban and Regional Planning and subsequently went on to complete a Master of Spatial Analysis, also at Ryerson. She is currently in the process of becoming a Registered Professional Planner. Before joining Cassels, Katy was an associate in the Toronto office of an international law firm.