Glenn E. Morrical

Glenn Morrical is a Partner in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis LLP. He practices in the areas of business and finance law and primarily focuses on the buying and selling of businesses, the financing of businesses through private equity (including venture capital), commercial loans, note private placements, public offerings of debt or equity, and other complex business and commercial transactions and arrangements. Glenn also represents companies in their compliance with securities laws, ranging from routine public company reporting to compliance with broker-dealer and investment adviser requirements and investment fund operations. He has also worked extensively in the field of director responsibility and corporate governance. Glenn also advises banks and holding companies on a variety of regulatory matters.

Glenn has represented businesses in a wide variety of industries, including financial institutions (banks, thrifts, securities broker-dealers and investment advisers), metals processors (both ferrous and nonferrous), manufacturers, chain retailers, software development companies, and companies in extractive industries (coal mining, oil and gas, gold, and stone quarrying).

Glenn has assisted in solutions for debtors and creditors in troubled debt situations, ranging from negotiated refinancings and restructurings involving syndicated senior and subordinated debt to complex Chapter 11 cases. Glenn is not a "courtroom" bankruptcy lawyer, but has negotiated and documented auction sale transactions in bankruptcies, the sale and recapitalization of multitudes of partnerships related to failed syndicate sponsors, and more routine Section 363 sales. He has acted as special counsel in a financial institution holding company bankruptcy characterized by the FDIC as of “profound importance…to...the stability of the financial system of the United States as a whole.”

Civic & Professional Involvement

Ohio State Bar Association, Chairman, Partnership Law Subcommittee
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Former Chair, Securities Section  
CFA Institute, Associate Member
Society of Corporate Securities & Governance Professionals
Boy Scouts of America, Scout Leader (past 20 years)
Ohio Oil & Gas Association

Recent Publications

"SEC Staff Announces Priorities for Examining Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers" (February 2013)
“Federal Suit Could Impact Utica Drilling,” Crain’s SHALE (December 2012)
"The JOBS Act" (April 2012)
"SEC Adopts Dodd-Frank Net Worth Standard for Accredited Investors" (December 2011)
"New Reporting Requirements for SEC-Registered Investment Advisers to Certain Private Funds" (October 2011)
“D.C. Court of Appeals Strikes Down SEC's Proxy Rule“ (August 2011)
“SEC Adopts Rules Implementing Amendments to the Investment Advisers Act” (July 2011)
“SEC Adopts Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Rules” (June 2011)

Selected Speaking Engagements

"Oil and Gas Properties: Buying and Selling Large Acreage Positions," presented at Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Real Estate Law Institute (November 2012)
"Buying and Selling Oil and Gas Properties," presented at the Utica Shale Development and Growth Forum, Columbus, OH (October 2012)
"Purchase and Sale Agreements for Oil and Gas Properties," presented at "Utica Shale: Issues in Law, Practice and Policy," hosted by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (September 2012)
"Selected Issues in Financing Oil and Gas Properties and Activities," presented for The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (June 2008)

Awards & Professional Recognition

Ohio Super Lawyers® (2004-2010, 2013)
The Best Lawyers in America® (2010-2013)

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