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, fractional ownership and timeshare), asset based lending, and creditor-debtor law (including loan workouts and restructuring, forbearance agreements, deeds in lieu, and non-judicial and judicial foreclosures). Doug is a member of 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, Dean’s List, 1973)
Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships
- Business
- Financial Institutions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Real Estate
- Sustainability and Climate Change
Representative Matters and Clients
- Fractional ownership projects, including developments at Lake Chelan and San Juan Island, Washington, and Bend, Oregon.
- Acquisition of timeshare club through reverse triangular merger of non-profit corporations.
- Purchase of remainder interests in Mexican Resort.
- Receivables loans secured by timeshare purchase contracts.
- Conversion of existing hotel into points-based timeshare program at Blackbird Lodge, Leavenworth, Washington.
- Vacation Internationale — General outside counsel for timeshare program.
- Holiday Resales — General outside counsel for leading timeshare resales company.
- Compass Cooperative — General outside counsel for travel and leisure club.
- Primary U.S. counsel in the acquisition of Façonnable, a designer 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.
Publications
- “Timeshares” chapter, Washington Real Property Deskbook, WSBA (2009)
- Washington and Alaska law chapters in State Compendium of Timeshare Law, ABA (2008)
Awards and Honors
- Peer Review Rated “AV” in Martindale-Hubbell
- Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate, 2010
Professional and Community Activities
- Washington State Bar Association,
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Business Law Section
- Uniform Commercial Code Committee
- Member, American Resort Development Association
- Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Real Estate