Aviva Will

Aviva Will is President and a member of Burford's Management and Commitments Committees. Ms. Will has responsibility for growing Burford’s core 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.

At Burford, Ms. Will developed and launched The Equity Project, a groundbreaking initiative designed to help increase diversity in law by providing an economic incentive for change through a $150 million pool of capital earmarked for financing commercial litigation matters led by women and racially diverse lawyers who have been historically underrepresented in the field. As part of The Equity Project, Ms. Will recruited over 25 lawyers from the world’s leading law firms and corporations to be Champions in promoting the availability of this capital to incentivize change.

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. Ms. Will also served as the Assistant Secretary for the company, managing corporate compliance and governance for the company and the board of directors. Prior to joining Time Warner, Inc., Ms. Will was a senior litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.