Dr Herfried Wöss Mag. Dr. iur. (Austria), LL.M. (Exeter), Licenciado en Derecho (Mexico), Special Legal Consultant

Dr. Herfried Wöss is a leading 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 with respect to large and complex infrastructure, energy and damages disputes both with respect to commercial and investment arbitrations. In 2022 and 2023 the firm’s arbitration portfolio as president of arbitral tribunals, party counsel for large transnational corporations and damages experts for a national oil company exceeded US$1 billion. 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 he practices international arbitration through his firm 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 has lectured on damages in commercial and investment arbitration at the Hague Academy of International Law, and is also a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law. Wöss & Partners has offices in Washington DC, Mexico City and a representative office in Vienna.