William Hereward is an associate in Weil’s Securities Litigation practice. He focuses on securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and other complex corporate disputes in a variety of industries.
Some of William’s recent experience includes working on Weil teams representing:
- American International Group, Inc. in litigation as equity holder and largest unsecured creditor owed approximately $37.5 billion, in connection with the chapter 11 case of a subsidiary.
- Gores Guggenheim Inc. in fiduciary duty litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to Gores Guggenheim’s $20 billion business combination with Polestar Performance AB.
- ATI Physical Therapy and certain of its officers and directors in connection with federal securities and derivative litigation and Delaware fiduciary duty litigation relating to its 2021 de-SPAC transaction with Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II.
- AMC Entertainment in a complex corporate dispute in New York Supreme Court.
William also maintains an active pro bono practice including working with Harvard Chabad in religious liberty litigation against the City of Cambridge and the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal.
William received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor of Law and Contemporary Problems. During law school, he served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Robert T. Numbers, II, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He earned his B.A. in Politics and Philosophy from the University of York in the United Kingdom.