ABOUT
Mr. Wheeler is a partner in K&L Gates’ Boston office in the Investment Management group. His practice focuses on advising mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs”), hedge funds, investment advisers, broker-dealers, and other financial service providers. Mr. Wheeler advises mutual fund complexes on various regulatory and compliance matters including registration,
mergers and reorganizations, and negotiations with fund service-providers. Mr. Wheeler also has experience with the launching of new mutual funds and hedge funds and has drafted numerous offering documents and registration statements for open- and closed-end investment companies. Mr. Wheeler has worked on internal policies, procedures, compliance checklists, CCO policies and procedures, advisory contracts and corresponding disclosures in SEC forms for investment companies and investment advisers. He has assisted in the drafting of opinions as well as assisted clients in discussions with the SEC staff. He has acted as Fund counsel and independent director counsel for various mutual fund complexes. Mr. Wheeler has also acted as special counsel organizing the preparation and public offering of numerous closed-end funds.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
During law school, Mr. Wheeler worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the Boston regional office. There he wrote legal memoranda detailing charges of bank fraud for
pending litigation and enforcement hearings and had extensive exposure to dual state and federal banking system regulatory issues.
ADMISSIONS
• Massachusetts
EDUCATION
J.D., Boston University School of Law, 2000 (Boston University International Law Journal)
A.B., The University of Chicago, 1995
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Listed as a Massachusetts Rising Star, 2011
