Herfried WöSS

Dr. Herfried Wöss is an international arbitrator ranked in the Hall of Fame by The Legal 500, and frequently sits as president, co-arbitrator, adjudicator, or acts as party counsel in large and complex infrastructure, energy and damages disputes in commercial and investment arbitrations. He started his career at the Legal Service of the European Commission and holds a Magister iuris and a doctorate with honours in International and European Economic Law in Austria, an LL.M. in international business legal studies at the University of Exeter, is Licenciado en Derecho in Mexico and a Special Legal Consultant in Washington DC where his firm practices international arbitration through Woess & Partners LLC. He was Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center from 2012-13, where he authored with his partner Adriana San Román, the Oxford University Press monograph on Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts that has been supplemented by subsequent book chapters and articles on damages in investment-treaty arbitration and related topics. He is a lecturer on damages in international arbitration at the Hague Academy of International Law and also a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. For a list of recent arbitrations, see: https://woessetpartners.com/practice-areas/arbitration/. The firm has offices in Washington DC, Mexico City and Vienna (representative office).