Phone: 404-954-9815
Fax: 404-681-1046
E-Mail: wwheeler@swfllp.com
overview
One of the founding partners of the firm, Warren Wheeler has more than 36 years of legal professional experience. Warren was a founding director of an Atlanta area thrift institution, which later became a national bank. He is presently a director of another national bank. He has spoken at the Institute of Continuing Education in Georgia on real estate matters. Warren Wheeler was recently recognized by Atlanta Magazine as one of the state’s “Super Lawyers” for 2007, a list of top attorneys determined by peer recognition and professional achievement.
practice areas
Commercial Real Estate
Corporate Finance, Securities and Capital Markets
Business Formations, Expansions and Strategic Divestitures
Estates and Trust
Real Estate Litigation
experience
- Represents real estate developers in connection with development of shopping center and retail properties varying in size, from large shopping centers anchored by supermarkets, discount stores and other national retailers to smaller retail developments and outparcel users.
- Represents mortgage lenders, including a recent $105,000,000 acquisition loan for the purchase of multiple industrial properties in five states.
- Represents owners of retail, industrial and office properties in connection with on-going ownership matters including tenant leasing and defaults, redevelopment, re-financings, sales, IRC Section 1031 exchanges, construction matters and ownership restructuring.
- Represented the borrower in connection with refinancing of mortgage loans on six separate multi-million dollar industrial developments.
education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1963
Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1969, with distinction
admitted
State Bar of Georgia
Alabama State Bar
The Florida Bar
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Court of Appeals of Georgia
affiliations & memberships
Omicron Delta Kappa
Order of the Coif
Bryan Society
Editorial Board, Emory Law Journal (Journal of Public Law), 1968-69
Atlanta Bar Association
Old Warhorse Lawyers Club
military
Lieutenant, United States Navy, Active duty, 1963-67
martindale hubble rating
AV Peer Review Rated