Career Overview

Current Focus: Glenn joined Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen in 2001. He is the chair of the Firm’s Tax Group and concentrates his practice in the following areas: the development of real estate with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Opportunity Zone incentives, the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, the Investment Tax Credit For Renewable Energy Property, as well as the Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit; the taxation of partnerships and LLCs; and the taxation of not-for-profit organizations. Glenn represents syndicators, developers, investors, lenders and nonprofit organizations in structuring tax advantaged transactions.

Glenn has also acted as an expert witness relating to tax credit transactions. He has represented clients in tax disputes before the IRS, the United States Tax Court and local tax authorities, with an emphasis on valuation issues.

Professional Affiliations:

• American Bar Associations
  • Member of Governing Committee of the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, 2016-2022
  • Budget Chair, 2022-present
• Co-Chair, Tax Credit and Equity Financing Committee of the Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, 2006-2016
• Board Member, The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, 2024-
• Opportunity Zone Advisory Board, Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits. 2018 – Present
• Moderator on several American Bar Association Teleconferences on legislation affecting low-income housing
• Regularly speaks on tax issues relating to Federal low-income housing and historic credits, and the Illinois affordable housing tax credit

Litigated Matters:

• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. v. Alabama DOR, (No. S97-103)
• Norwest Corp. v. Comm’r, 108 TC 265 (1997)
• Nestle Holdings, Inc. v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo, 1995-441 (1995)

Publications:

• Co-Author, 50% Test Timing for Multiple-Building Projects—Avoiding Traps for the Unwary, 32 Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 329 (2024).
• Contributing Author, The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, 3rd Ed., American Bar Association (2022) (chapter on using opportunity zones with affordable housing).
• Author, Can You Get a Brew in an OZ? Opportunity Zones, Brew Pubs and Sin Businesses, Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits (2021).
• Author, Issues and Opportunities When Combining Opportunity Zones and LIHTC, Novogradac Journal on Tax Credits (2019)
• Author, Why Does My Tax Lawyer Keep Saying We Need Nonrecourse Debt for My Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Project, 27 Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 435 (2018)
• Author, Limited Time Offer-Bonus Depreciation Yield Enhancer, Novogradac Journal on Tax Credits (2016).
• Author, How to Save Your Property’s 9 Percent Rate (Even with 2014 Credits), Novogradac Journal on Tax Credits (2012).
• Author, IRS Memo States TCAP Grants are Taxable at Time of TCAP Agreement is Signed, Journal of Tax Credits, Vol II, Issue IV (2011).
• Contributing Author, The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, 2d Ed., American Bar Association (2011).
• Contributing Author, Explanation and Analysis, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – Law and Analysis (2009).
• Co-Author, Initiatives and Tools for the Preservations of Affordable Housing in Illinois, 18 Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 403 (2009).
• Co-Author, Low Income Housing Tax Credit Provisions of the Recovery Act of 2009: Tools to Close Financing Gaps in a Weak Tax Credit Equity Market, 18 Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 463 (2009).
• Co-Author, Attention Developers: Beware of TCAP Tax Pitfalls and Be Aware of Credit Exchange Tax Benefits, Journal of Tax Credit Housing Volume II, Issue IX (2009).
• Contributing Author, Housing Assistance Act of 2008 – Law (2008).
• Contributing Author, Explanation and Analysis and Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 – Law (2008).
• Co-Author, Impact of Housing and Economic Recovery Tax Act of 2008 on Current and Future Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Properties, 18 Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law 47 (2008).
• Co-Author with members of the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law of many comment letters to the IRS and Treasury on matters related to tax credits and opportunity zones.
• Frequently quoted in Housing and Development Reporter and other tax credit publications

Speaking Engagements:

• Guest speaker on Low-Income Housing Tax Credits at University of Illinois, School of Law
• A frequent speaker at conferences and webinars for the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, The National Council of State Housing Finance Agencies, Novogradac & Co., The Illinois Housing Council, The Indiana Housing Conferences, The National Housing and Rehabilitation Association and other organizations.

Awards:

• Leading Lawyer, 2021