Neal has been a principal Canadian tax advisor in major Canadian REIT transactions.  His expertise in GST and IT taxation has entailed an advisory role in a wide range of commercial transactions.

Neal is the co-author of the tax sections in Hughes on Copyright and Industrial Design, Hughes on Trade Marks and Hughes and Woodley on Patents.  He was a member of the Editorial Board of Ward's Tax Law and Planning (previously published by Carswell).  He has been a sessional lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law School, and delivered numerous papers on income tax and GST matters at conferences.

Neal received a B.Comm. from the University of Toronto in 1977, became a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 1979 after two years at a major public accounting firm and received an LL.B. from the University of Toronto Law School in 1982. He became a partner in 1986.