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Wöss & Partners is a globally recognized law firm with a focus on commercial and investment arbitration, damage claims, international trade regulation, and corporate and international business law. The firm also specializes in the fields of infrastructure, energy, oil & gas. Its team has participated in numerous arbitrations as counsel, arbitrators, and experts, earning the firm accolades from The Legal 500 and the International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration.
Dr. Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román are leading authorities in damages in international arbitration with respect to income generating contracts, assets and investments. Both are the authors of the Oxford University Press monograph on Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts which establishes an international damages doctrine in that field.
Dr. Herfried Wöss and Adriana San Román frequently act as party counsel, arbitrator (co- and presiding) and expert (damages and legal) in large damages-related infrastructure and energy arbitrations and international litigations.
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Wöss & Partners is highly specialized in construction and infrastructure projects, in particular, the representation of clients in large public tenders and the negotiation and drafting of EPC and other construction contracts including FIDIC contracts throughout the region. It has ample experience with Public-Private Partnerships, concession agreements and toll highways.Wöss & Partners recently advised Stöcklin Logistik AG and Stoecklin Logistics de México, S.A. de C.V. in the negotiation, execution and contract management of a turnkey contract for the Bimbo (the World’s largest bread company) Automated Warehouse System, a US$100 million project.
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Wöss & Partners has ample experience in energy generation and transmission and gas distribution projects, as well as the regulatory aspects of the connection of large power plants to the grid and the determination and verification of energy tariffs. It has represented large corporations in international public tenders for hydroelectric power plants, and the development and construction of combined cycle thermoelectric as well as renewable energy plant projects.
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Wöss & Partners is a leading international trade and customs law firm recognized for many years by the International Who’s Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers. Under the leadership of Dr. Herfried Wöss, the firm has won several landmark anti-dumping, subsidies and safeguard actions in Mexico and advised governmental agencies and corporations with respect to NAFTA/USMCA, the EU-Mexico Association Agreement, CPTPP and other free trade agreements. Dr. Wöss started his career at the Legal Services of the European Commission in Brussels and holds a doctorate with honours in international economic law.
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During the last 30 years, Wöss & Partners has advised large and medium sized companies and government entities in all aspects of corporate and business law, mergers & acquisitions, trade and customs law, competition law, labour and social security, intellectual and industrial property and foreign investment.
Wöss & Partners engages in corporate and debt restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, negotiations with investment funds and complex corporate matters. It also takes care of the day-to-day legal matters of its clients in all aspects of business and corporate law. Wöss & Partners is well-known for the drafting of complex international contracts in the automotive, pharmaceutical and technology sectors and under transnational legal rules such as CISG and PICC.
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