Will is a partner in the Corporate and M&A and Capital Markets Groups.

Will represents leading public companies in the maritime sector on all their US corporate and securities matters and has advised on a broad range of significant capital markets transactions, including IPOs and follow-on public offerings, private placements and 144A/Regulation S offerings of equity and debt securities.

He also assists domestic and foreign US-listed clients comply with SEC reporting, proxy statement disclosure and stock exchange requirements.

Will routinely advises on M&A transactions, asset acquisitions, tender offers, private equity investments and a wide variety of complex corporate governance and US securities law matters critical to the growth of both public and private companies.

Will is recognized by Legal 500 USA as a Next Generation Partner for Transport: Shipping: Finance.

He is admitted to the New York and Massachusetts bars.

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  • Advising Ocean Network Express (East Asia) on the bid to take Seaspan’s parent company (Atlas) private. Seaspan is one of the leading owner-charters of containerships to the world’s leading shipping companies. This deal won Marine Money Take Private Deal of the Year 2023.
  • Advising a leading NYSE-listed LPG shipping company in its US$372m 144A/Regulation S private placements and subsequent US$135m IPO and NYSE listing.
  • Advising a leading private equity-backed containership owner in its US$780m merger into an NYSE-listed containership owner.
  • Advising a NASDAQ listed dry bulk shipping company in its US$364m asset acquisition and private placement of common shares and concurrent US$60m public offering of common shares.
  • Advising a NASDAQ listed dry bulk shipping company in multiple public offerings of common shares and warrants and an innovative sale-leaseback refinancing and concurrent private placement of common shares.
  • Advising an Oslo-listed international drilling contractor in its US$232.5m cash tender offer to acquire a leading US-based owner and operator of drilling rigs.

Education

  1. 2009 · Boston College Law School, J.D.
  2. 2002 · Harvard University, A.B.