Douglas E. Wheeler

Shareholder | Seattle | 206.223.7025 | wheelerd@lanepowell.com

Areas of Practice

Doug Wheeler has an active business practice focusing on resort development and interval ownership projects, real estate and business transactions, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, secured transactions (including personal property leasing), asset based lending, licensing and intellectual property, and creditor-debtor law. Doug is a member of the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association.

Admitted to Practice

• Washington
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
• United States District Court for the Western District of Washington

Academics

• University of Washington (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1984)
• University of Puget Sound (Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Dean’s List, 1973)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

• Apparel and Footwear
• Business
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Real Estate
• Sustainability and Climate Change

Representative Matters and Clients

• Inn of the Seventh Mountain, Bend, Oregon – Developed legal documentation for fractional ownership program within restrictions of existing governing documents that prohibited timeshare ownership.
• Blackbird Lodge, Leavenworth, Washington – Conversion of existing hotel into points-based timeshare program, including hypothecation financing for cash-flow requirements.
• Bridges at Moses Pointe, Moses Point, Washington – Conversion from a fractional ownership program to a traditional condominium development with optional fractional ownership option.
• Nordstrom, Inc. – Primary U.S. counsel in the acquisition of Façonnable, a designer, wholesaler and retailer of high quality apparel and accessories for men and women.
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – All aspects of construction of its Seattle campus, including property assemblage, contract preparation and related activities.

Professional and Community Activities

• American Bar Association,
  • Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
  • Business Law Section
  • Intellectual Law Section
• Washington State Bar Association,
  • Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
  • Business Law Section
  • Uniform Commercial Code Committee
• Member, American Resort Development Association
• Member, Washington Software Alliance
• Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate (2009)