Gary R. Glenn

Principal

glenn@millercanfield.com

Detroit
T: +1.313.496.7852
O: +1.313.963.6420
F: +1.313.496.8452

With over 30 years of experience in a wide variety of transactions, Gary Glenn brings a unique combination of pragmatism, insight and knowledge to bear on each client’s particular needs. Developing strategies to meet the goals of both the parties to the transaction, as nearly as possible, is a particular focus of his approach to the practice of tax law. He represents publicly traded companies, family enterprises, developers, investors, manufacturers, distributors, inventors, colleges, foreign governments and individuals.

“Communicating with the client on all matters big and small, and offering pragmatic solutions that concisely convey the vagaries of tax law and tax planning are the most important priorities in the advice I offer.”
Gary R. Glenn

Gary’s experience is broader than just income tax planning. It also includes estate and gift tax planning, employment taxes, withholding tax considerations, excise taxes, sale and use taxes and other forms of business taxes. Gary serves as leader of the firm's Federal Tax and Employee Benefits Group.

Experience

The breadth of Gary’s experience enables him to counsel his diverse clients on a wide variety of issues, as evidenced by these recent transactions:

His analysis and opinion on the tax status of financial products sold in a public offering was critical to the success of the transaction.

He developed and coordinated the tax planning for a stock and asset acquisition by a foreign client of companies in 13 countries.

He challenged the IRS conclusion that income earned by a company owned by a client constitutes foreign base company income.

He defended a tax-exempt entity against an IRS proposal to revoke the company’s tax-exempt status and to impose penalties upon the officers for the receipt of excess benefits.

Gary’s extremely varied transactions include partnership mergers; tax issues arising from asset and stock sales; the evaluation of workers’ status for employment tax purposes and the potential tax ramifications of that issue; tax issues arising from a variety of fringe benefits offered as part of an employment package to a recruited executive; the tax ramifications arising from the settlement of various forms of litigated disputes; like-kind exchanges and various forms of corporate combinations, reorganizations and dispositions.

Professional Activities

State Bar of Michigan, Taxation Section, Council Member; Probate & Estate Planning
American Immigration Lawyers Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers