Meet the team
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Wöss & Partners is highly specialized in commercial and investment arbitration as well as damages claims concerning construction, infrastructure and energy projects. It masters the art of solving legal, procedural and quantification challenges in complex damages cases. The firm’s arbitration and damages portfolio as party counsel, arbitrator, adjudicator, damages and legal experts and consultants recently exceeded US$1 billion. The firm works through its offices in Washington DC (Woess & Partners LLC – International Arbitration) and Mexico City, and has a representative office at the Palais Aurora in Vienna, Austria.
The firm, led by Dr. Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román, recently successfully represented a large French energy company in a complex US$ 240 million energy tariff arbitration in which all claims against the firm’s client were dismissed and the counterclaims and costs of arbitration were awarded to the client. In 2020, the firm also successfully advised a leading EPC contractor with respect to multiple claims and counterclaims with a New York investment fund regarding a 1,000+ MW combined cycle thermoelectrical plant and complex technical and economic issues, which led to the settlement of the dispute while on the brink of commencing an ICC arbitration in New York under the laws of New York.
Wöss & Partners is listed as a top tier firm in Latin America by Legal 500, which also ranks Dr. Herfried Wöss as Hall of Fame and Adriana San Román as leading individual. Dr. Wöss is referenced in the Legal 500 Powerlist Arbitration Latin America and the International Who’s Who: Commercial Arbitration, and listed as arbitrator under the EU trade and investment agreements. He is currently sitting as president and arbitrator on large and complex arbitrations dealing with the Mexican energy-counter-reform, gas pipelines, major infrastructure projects and complex damages issues. He is also frequently acting as party counsel in damages, infrastructure and energy arbitrations.
Adriana San Román is an attorney and a former investment banker, as well as a damages expert. She has extensive experience as counsel and damages expert in large infrastructure and energy arbitrations and litigation including oil platforms, aqueducts, hospital and industrial projects. She is a member of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration and has recently acted as a damages expert in international arbitrations and litigation including a large oil platform construction arbitration where a US$280 million claim was dismissed and the respondent was awarded an US$60 million counterclaim based on her expert opinion.
Dr. Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román are the principal authors of the Oxford University Press monograph Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts in which they formulated an international damages doctrine for income generating contracts and investment goods. They have published extensively on these issues, including their chapters on ‘Damages in Investment Treaty Arbitration’ and ‘Damages in International Commercial Arbitration’, which were recently published in: International Arbitration and EU Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021).
The team includes outstanding arbitration professionals such as Abog. Christian Carbajal, LL.M. (former secretary-general of the Lima Arbitration Centre) in Brasil, Carlos F. Rodríguez Sámano (a former general counsel of a large energy corporation in Mexico), Dr. Yahir Acosta Pérez, LL.M. (QMUL) in Mexico, Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos, LL.M. (secretary general of EFILA) in Amsterdam, Dr. A. Devin Bray, Esq., LL.M., (former law clerk of Judge Charles N. Brower) in Amsterdam, Lic. Sergio M. Rendón, LL.M. (Heidelberg), a general counsel of a large construction and energy company in Mexico, Paolo Cammarota, Esq., J.D. (Stanford), M.A. (Yale) of Cabrera Cammarota in New York and Prof. DDr. Adolf Peter, LL.M. in Shanghai. The team is assisted by Mtra. Kin del Ángel Estrada Balderas, LL.M. (Dundee), RA Tobias Fodi, LL.M. (Dundee) and Víctor Osante Guzman, in Mexico.
