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Aviva Will

President, New York

Aviva Will is President and a member of Burford's Management and Commitments Committees. Ms. Will has responsibility for growing Burford’s legal finance business globally, with particular focus on high value business and complex financing arrangements. She has overseen the continuing innovation of Burford’s offerings and has been instrumental in building the industry’s most respected legal finance team and process.

Prior to joining Burford in 2010, Ms. Will was a senior litigation manager and Assistant General Counsel at Time Warner Inc., where she managed a portfolio of significant antitrust, intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She was also the company’s leading antitrust and regulatory counsel, advising senior management on antitrust risk and overseeing all government antitrust investigations and merger clearances worldwide. Prior to joining Time Warner, Inc., Ms. Will was a senior litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Experience

  • Time Warner Inc.

    Senior Litigation Manager
    Chief Antitrust and Regulatory Counsel
    Assistant Secretary

  • Cravath, Swaine & Moore

    Senior Litigator

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law

    JD, cum laude
    Fordham Law Review Writing & Research Editor

  • Columbia University

    BA

  • New Jersey Supreme Court

    Law Clerk to Honorable Stewart G. Pollock

Professional affiliations

  • NYU School of Law, Center for Civil Justice

    Board of Advisors

  • University Settlement

    Director & Executive Committee member

Clerkships

  • Supreme Court of New Jersey

    Law clerk to NJ Supreme Court Justice Stewart G. Pollock

Recognition

Chambers and Partners
Band 1-US Litigation Funding
2022-2024
New York Law Journal
Trailblazer
2019