Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-term Contracts (Oxford International Arbitration Series) - Hardcover

Wöss, Herfried; San Román Rivera, Adriana; Spiller, Pablo; Dellepiane, Santiago

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199680671 ISBN 13: 9780199680672

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2014

Synopsis

The first detailed coverage of legal, financial, and economic implications of damages in international arbitration Clarifies how different rules of law on damages and loss of income (UK, US, France, Mexico, Germany, CISG and UNIDROIT Principles) are applied to damages claims for breach of complex long-term contracts including privately-financed infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships. Uses a step-by-step approach for the application of the but-for method and its relationship to loss, causation and the measure of damages Refers to best international and national practices for the reconstruction of the hypothetical course of events to solve the legal, financial and economic issues involved in the determination and quantification of damages claims and the proper reasoning of arbitral awards Makes extended reference to high profile ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID cases and unpublished awards in which the authors were invovled Damages are a topic of central importance in international arbitration, being very often the principal concern of the parties, and an indication of the performance of their counsel. They are also one of the most complex topics. This book addresses the many competing factors that contribute to their nature and amount: while they are compensatory, they may be subject to counterclaims and set-offs, affected by failures to mitigate, or inflated by considerations such as interest and costs. Specialist evidence is relied on to complete composite calculations, taking into account such evasive factors as the destruction of market value, uncertainty of future revenues, projected interest rate changes, and lost dividends. The lack of understanding of the underlying considerations, methods such as "splitting the baby", or dogmas such as the misinterpreted "efficient breach of contract", combined with the already high level of burden of proof, can make successful damages claims or properly reasoned awards difficult to achieve.

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Review:

Damages in International Arbitration under Complex Long-Term Contracts is a marked contribution to the current paucity of scholarship on economic damages in international arbitration ... Written with the specialized practitioner as audience in mind, the books utility is reinforced by the legal, economic, and financial experience of its four authors (A. Devin Bray, The Journal of World Investment & Trade (2016))

About the Author:

Herfried Wöss is a founding partner of Wöss & Partners, S.C. and has over twenty years of experience in prominent law firms, as well as at the Mexican Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Commission. He specializes in investment and commercial arbitration, with an emphasis on construction disputes, directors' disputes, and expert proceedings, as well as WTO and NAFTA panels. He currently manages a multi-million arbitration portfolio as sole- and co-arbitrator, party counsel and legal expert. Dr. Wöss also founded the Investment Arbitration Forum (Mexico). Adriana San Román Rivera, is a partner Wöss & Partners, S.C., where she has worked for ten years as an attorney at law and financial analyst, having previously worked for Obregón, Quintana y Wöss, S.C. and for the National Bank of Mexico. She has extensive experience in corporate banking, financial engineering and risk analysis legal-financial structuring of projects and infrastructure projects legal-financial strategies in damages claims, mergers & acquisitions and anti-dumping and subsidy procedures. Adriana was Ford foundation scholar of the University of Exeter where she studied for an M.A Finance & Investment. Pablo T. Spiller is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Business and Technology at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Consultant at Compass Lexecon; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and the former President of the International Society for New Institutional Economics. Prior to joining Compass Lexecon he was the co-chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at LECG. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Economics, the Regulation Magazine, the Journal of Comparative Economics. Dr. Spiller has extensive consulting and expert testimony experience. He has testified as expert in more than ninety international arbitration cases. Santiago Dellepiane is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon. He has worked extensively as a consultant for utilities, regulated, and non-regulated businesses. His work involves economic analysis, valuation, business advisory, damages assessment and intellectual property issues. Mr. Dellepiane has testified on valuation and damages issues. For over fourteen years he has worked on a large variety of economic, valuation, and business consulting engagements for clients in several countries and in sectors including infrastructure, energy, consumer products, media and hospitality franchises, and has been a project manager working with counsel on treaty and commercial arbitrations under ICSID, ICC and other venues, U.S. litigation proceedings, and Canadian Court proceedings. Mr. Dellepiane was previously a Principal with LECG, LLC and General Manager of its International Arbitration Practice Group, where he was responsible for the management of the practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199680671
• ISBN 13: 9780199680672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384