Overview

Glenn Krassen is Partner-in-Charge of Bricker Graydon's Cleveland office. He has nearly 40 years of broad oil and gas and energy law experience.

Glenn practices in the areas of energy, public utilities, complex energy finance, corporate, and real estate, in addition to oil and gas. He represents the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council, the largest public retail energy aggregation in Ohio, comprised of about 235 member Ohio counties, cities, and townships, as well as other large public and private energy aggregation groups. He has served as bond and special energy counsel for the issuance of over $4 billion of municipal electricity and natural gas prepayment bonds nationwide.

Glenn Krassen has over 40 years of broad energy law experience and practices in the areas of energy, oil and gas, public utilities, complex energy finance, corporate law, and real estate. He is General Counsel of the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC), the largest public retail energy aggregation in Ohio, comprised of about 240 member counties, cities, and townships in Ohio, as well as other large public and private energy aggregation groups. Glenn is experienced in negotiating and closing physical and virtual power purchase agreements. He has served as bond and special energy counsel for the issuance of over $4 billion of municipal electricity and natural gas prepayment bonds nationwide.

Glenn regularly represents public and private entities in Ohio and nationally on complex energy finance issues and electric and gas competitive procurement and contracting issues; represents renewable energy developers and end-users in solar, wind, and biomass projects; and regularly appears in utility regulatory matters before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. He has served as outside general counsel and local Ohio counsel for oil and gas, renewable energy, competitive energy suppliers, and other energy companies and represents them in acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, partnerships, and other business transactions. He also represents municipalities, public agencies, public and private landowners, and others on oil and gas leasing, municipal utility, electricity, gas, steam and chilled water, sewer, and renewable energy issues.

For additional ways to contact Glenn Krassen, you can reach his assistant Emily Wendt at 614.227.4909 or by email.

Education

The Ohio State University College of Law, J.D. (1980)

The George Washington University School of Public and International Affairs, B.A. with distinction (1977); Phi Beta Kappa

Distinctions

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America® – Energy Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil & Gas Law (2003–2024)

Listed, Super Lawyers®, part of Thomson Reuters®  Ohio, Energy & Natural Resources; Utilities; Government Finance (2004–2008; 2017-2022)

Ranked, Chambers USA – Energy & Natural Resources: Band 1 (2024); Band 4 (2020–2022); Band 3 (2017–2019)

Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated™

Professional Activities

Adjunct Professor, Oil and Gas Law, Cleveland State University College of Law

Secretary, Board of Trustees, Eliza Jennings Network, Cleveland, Ohio

Member, Board of Trustees, Eliza Jennings Network, Cleveland, Ohio

Member, Ohio Oil and Gas Association

Experience

  • Successful defense of highly litigated PUCO recertification of Ohio’s largest public retail governmental aggregator, resulting in recertification and a finding of no violation of law, rule, or order. (March 2023)
  • Successful negotiation of documentation and closing of large complex Ohio oil and gas asset disposition, representing privately held oil and gas company seller. (2023)

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Glenn S. Krassen

Of Counsel
  • 1350 Euclid Avenue
    Suite 650
    Cleveland, OH 44115 -1840

Admissions

  • Member, American Bar Association; Ohio State Bar Association; (former chairman of the Natural Resources Committee; current member of the Public Utilities Committee); Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
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