Will is a senior associate in the Washington, DC office. Will specializes in international disputes with connections to the US, including international arbitrations governed by US law, arbitrations with US parallel litigation proceedings, and award enforcement proceedings and proceedings in aid of arbitration in US courts. He has advised clients in investor-state and international commercial arbitrations conducted under AAA, ICC, ICSID, JAMS, LCIA, and UNCITRAL rules and in proceedings before US courts of appeals, US district courts, and state courts.
Will studied classics at Princeton, law at Yale, and legal history at the University of Chicago, where he received a PhD. Immediately before joining Three Crowns, Will held the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellowship at Harvard Law School and taught Roman law at Boston College Law School. He previously served as a law clerk for Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2025, he became the first American in decades to be awarded the high-level diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law in private international law, which he received cum laude.
Will’s publications on legal subjects include Fraude à la loi in the Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws, 27 Revista de la Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación (forthcoming); The Restricted Charitable Gift as Third-Party-Beneficiary Contract, 52 Real Prop., Tr. & Est. L.J. 79 (2017); and the edited volume The Discovery of the Fact (Clifford Ando & William P. Sullivan eds., 2020).
Will is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and Paris. He speaks or reads French, German, and Italian.
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Languages
English
French
German
Italian
Representing an energy major in an investment treaty arbitration involving a denial of justice
Representing an East Asian high technology manufacturer in an ICC arbitration applying New York contract law
Representing a West Indian energy concern against claims of breach of a New York law contract and statutory torts in a PCA-administered UNCITRAL rules arbitration
Representing an artificial intelligence software maker in a JAMS arbitration arising out of a suite of Delaware law contracts with an investor and involving claims of breach of contract, breach of statutory duty, and tort
Representing a Canadian energy company against Ontario law contract claims brought by its political risk insurer in an ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration
Representing a renewable energy technology manufacturer in an ICC arbitration arising under a patent cross-license agreement governed by Illinois law
Representing a large financial services firm in an LCIA arbitration applying New York law
Filing amicus curiae briefs on the law of forum non conveniens in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- AB, Princeton University
- MA, University of Chicago
- JD, Yale Law School
- Diploma (cum laude), Hague Academy of International Law
- PhD, University of Chicago