​Name: 
Dr Herfried Wöss
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Location:  
Mexico City, Mexico - Washington DC, USA
Contact details: 
+525526237100

Qualifications: 
LLB, Diploma in Export Management, Master of Laws in International Business Legal Studies (LL.M.), Doctor of Jurisprudence in International economic law, FPD (Fellow Prime Dispute).  

Specialisation: 
Party Counsel, International Arbitrator, Damage Expert, Dispute Board Expert, Corporate Lawyer,  Lecturer, and Educator, licensed as special legal consultant in Washington DC.

Languages:
English, Spanish and German (mother tongue).

Regions served: 
Mexico, Washington DC, Austria (only in international arbitration) and further International regions as requested.
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Industry Sectors :*​
  • Infrastructure projects
  • Energy
  • Oil & Gas
  • Automotive
  • Construction
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • International Business​
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Practice Areas: *​​
  • Arbitration
  • Dispute Board Member
  • Emergency Arbitration
  • Expert Witness
  • Independent Expert
  • Specialist panel
Background information: 
25 years as international business and trade lawyer and corporate lawyer trained in Austria, UK, the legal service of the European Commission, Mexico and the US.
Dr. Herfried is Partner of Wöss & Partners (Mexico City, Washington DC and Lima) and has extensive experience in international commercial and investment arbitration under different arbitration rules. His arbitration experience spans from refinery-ships, thermo-electrical plants and substations, gas and oil pipelines, EPC turnkey projects, public-private partnerships, M&A, joint venture agreements, franchise agreements, international sales contracts, and the telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical industries. He is a member of the ICC Arbitration Commission, the international panel of ICDR, the Executive Committee of the North America Branch of the CIArb. and the country representative of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and member of its multilateral banking committee. He is the author of the monograph "Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts" together with his partner Adriana San Román and two economists, published by Oxford University Press. He is also the founder of the Investment Arbitration Forum and was visiting scholar for arbitration at the Georgetown University Law Centre from 2012-13.

Publications:
  • ‘Protección de Inversiones y La Reforma Energética en México (‘Investment Protection and the Mexican Energy Reform’), Energía a Debate (Noviembre – Diciembre 2016) 42-50; Construction Law International, International Bar Association, forthcoming.
  • ‘Systemic Aspects and the Need for Codification of International Tort Law Standards in Investment Arbitration’ in: The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA), Andrea K. Bjorklund, John Gaffney, Fabien Gélinas, Herfried Wöss (eds.), (2016) TDM 1.
  • ‘Damages in International Arbitration with respect to Income Generating Assets or Investments in Commercial and Investment Arbitration’, Herfried Wöss / Adriana San Román Rivera, Journal of Damages in International Arbitration 1 (2015) 37-62
  • ‘Legitimacy in WTO law and investment arbitration: the role of the contracting parties’, Columbia FDI Perspective No. 144, March 30, 2015
  • Damages in International Arbitrations under Complex Long-term Contracts, Herfried Wöss, Adriana San Román, Pablo T. Spiller and Santiago Dellepiane, Oxford University Press, February 2014, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199680672.do, 384 pp.
  • Investment Arbitration Forum: Trends and Tendencies (in Spanish), Sonia Rodríguez Jiménez / Herfried Wöss (eds.), Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, http://biblio.juridicas.unam.mx/libros/libro.htm?l=3386, 462 pp.
  • Investment Arbitration (in Spanish), Sonia Rodríguez Jiménez / Herfried Wöss (eds.), Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, 2009.
  • ‘The ICC Model Turnkey Contract for Major Projects’, Construction Law International, International Bar Association, 3 (2008) 2, 6-11.
  • ‘The Application of TRIPS to the Authorization by Health Authorities of the Using, Making and Selling of Pharmaceutical Drugs’, Journal of International Trade Law & Regulation, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 3 (2002) 79-84.
  • ‘Rules of origin in international trade and under NAFTA’ (in Spanish), “El Foro”, Law Review of the Mexican Bar Association, 2 (October 1999) 159-174.
  • Dispute Resolution in International Economic Law and under the North American Agreement on Labor Co-operation, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1999.
  • ‘The legal benefits of NAFTA for German enterprises’ (in German), in: Legal Aspects of Foreign Trade between Germany, Mexico and Argentina, Roland Bomhard/Heinrich Dörner (Hrsg.), Schriftenreihe der Universität Düsseldorf, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden, 1998, 101-118.
  • ‘The application of the UN-Sales Law by courts and arbitral tribunals in Mexico’ (in German), in: Legal Aspects of Foreign Trade between Germany, Mexico and Argentina, Roland Bomhard/Heinrich Dörner (Hrsg.), Schriftenreihe der Universität Düsseldorf, Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden, 1998, 43-56.
  • The legal status of Voluntary Restraint Agreements on the Steel Sector with particular emphasis on the Associated Financing of Exports (EC-US Steel and Consensus Agreements), doctorate thesis (in German; J.S.D./LL.D. equivalent), Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 1995.

Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 
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