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.

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.

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 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.

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. 

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.