Brownstein Welcomes Luke Glisan to its Corporate & Business Department

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck welcomes Luke Glisan to its Corporate & Business Department as a shareholder in the firm’s Denver office. Glisan will focus on employment law issues related to mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, hiring, discipline, promotions, terminations and post-termination restraints. 

“Luke is a great addition to our corporate team. Luke will focus on employment law issues related to M&A as well as advice and counsel to firm clients. His experience will further deepen the bench of first rate transactional lawyers at our firm,” said Jay Spader, chair of Brownstein’s Corporate & Business Department.

Glisan most recently served as the in-house employment counsel and employee relations team lead with a multinational financial services company in New York. While there, he led a team of lawyers and immigration experts advising on all employment law and immigration issues in the Americas region. He was responsible for overseeing workforces in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Chile. He was instrumental in designing policies to comply with various employment laws, including salary transparency, harassment training and pay equity. 

He has also previously served as a partner at a law firm in Chicago, was senior counsel at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and worked as a law clerk for a U.S. District Court magistrate judge.

Glisan received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law with honors and an emphasis in employment law studies.