Our founder, Rena M. Wheaton, is a business transactions attorney with extensive experience advising U.S. and multinational companies, including financial institutions and technology companies, both as in-house counsel and in private practice.

Prior to founding Wheaton Law Group, Ms. Wheaton was a Partner of Guth | Christopher LLP specializing in business transactions. Prior to joining Guth | Christopher, Ms. Wheaton served for more than ten years as in-house senior corporate counsel at telecommunications, technology commercialization and finance companies, including as SVP and Chief Legal Officer of Titan Wireless, Inc., an international mobile telecommunications firm; VP and General Counsel of Zone Reactor, a market driven technology commercialization company; and SVP, General Counsel and Secretary of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank, federal government capitalized economic development bank.

Ms. Wheaton began her career serving clients for more than 10 years as a corporate lawyer with O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Shearman & Sterling.

Ms. Wheaton received her JD from Columbia University School of Law and her BA in Political Science from Barnard College, and is a member of the California and New York Bar.

Ms. Wheaton served as a member of the Board of Trustees and Board Governors of the Japanese American National Museum and is a former Director of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) and an alumna of the Direct Women Board Institute.