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Gary R. Glenn

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Education

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1978

University of Michigan, B.A., 1975

Bar Admissions

Court Admissions

U.S. Tax Court

U.S. District Court

  • Eastern District of Michigan

With more than 30 years of experience in a wide variety of transactions, Gary 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.

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.

He also has more than 25 years of experience in immigration work. He has experience in matters that include a variety of visas (H, L, E, TN, B), adjustment of status, advance parole, labor condition applications, labor certification (PERM) and a variety of other matters. Gary also handles waiver applications, loss of conditional permanent resident status and asylum claims.

Representative Matters

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.

Honors

Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2013-present

DBusiness Magazine, Top Lawyers, Nonprofit/Charities Law, Tax Law, Family Law, Trusts and Estates

Michigan Super Lawyers, Tax, 2010-2014

Professional Activities

State Bar of Michigan, Taxation Section, Council Member; Probate & Estate Planning

American Immigration Lawyers Association

National Association of Bond Lawyers

Civic, Cultural & Social Activities

Country Club of Detroit

Speeches

"Hiring Foreign Nationals: What You Need To Know," Miller Canfield, Southfield, Michigan, May 12, 2009

"Tax-Exempt Organizations in Michigan," Lorman Seminar, February 15, 2007

Publications

"Treasury's proposed guidelines would clarify foreign tax credits," Midwest In-House, November 2006

Articles