Withers’ Tokyo partner Steven Wheeler has joined Hong Kong-based global alternative investment firm PAG as deputy general counsel of its property investments arm, PAG Real Assets, in Tokyo.
Wheeler focuses on real estate mergers and acquisitions, and the financing of such transactions. Qualified in the U.S, he has been practicing as a registered foreign attorney in Japan. He joined Withers in 2018 as part of a team hire from White & Case and Japanese law firm Masuda & Partners. He was made partner in 2021 and had been co-leading Withers’ real estate practice in Tokyo, which was launched in 2015.
