Chris Wheeler, a member of Proskauer Rose LLP's Corporate Department and a partner in the Florida office, has a versatile transactional practice. Chris has had extensive experience in real estate and corporate law, institutional lending, administrative law and industrial revenue bond financing. Moreover, he serves as a strategist and counselor to many clients in handling their other legal and business matters.

He has a large commercial real estate practice, having represented numerous companies in connection with the purchase or sale of their corporate headquarters, manufacturing facilities or distribution facilities. Chris has overseen these matters for private and public corporations. He is particularly adept in handling the environmental aspects now so important to real estate transactions. He has also acted as counsel for developers, institutions and large property holders in connection with the purchase, sale, refinancing or operation of their real estate properties.

Chris's corporate experience is considerable, having advised small and large clients in a broad spectrum of businesses. He is well versed in general corporate law as well as mergers and acquisitions and securities matters. He has guided companies from start-up through initial private placements to public offerings.

During the 1980s when industrial revenue bonds were a preferred financing tool for small and mid-sized companies, Chris was one of the leading lawyers in securing and negotiating industrial revenue bond financing.

Chris also has represented a great many financial institutions and institutional lenders in Florida, developing a broad scope of experience. For these clients Chris has handled regulatory matters and numerous types of loan transactions.

A graduate of Hamilton College and Cornell Law School, Chris was a member of the managing Board of Editors of the Cornell Law Review.

Active in professional, charitable and philanthropic matters and community affairs, Chris presently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton Community Hospital, the Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the Foundation of Florida Atlantic University. Chris is a former member of the Board of Directors of Pine Crest School and a former member of the Board of Directors of Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Florida. Chris is also a former member of the Grievance Committee for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.