WISS & PARTNERS
Our leadership
The leadership of Wiss & Partners comprises specialized lawyers whose global perspective, language skills, cultural affinity, and deep knowledge spanning finance, project finance, corporate and commercial law have been instrumental in driving our success.
MARCIA WISS, ESQ
Managing Partner, Wiss & Partners, Washington, D.C.
Marcia has been in the private practice of law for the past 40 years, having recently retired as an equity partner at the global law firm Hogan Lovells LLP, and prior to that was the deputy to the Assistant General Counsel for Finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). She has been the lead counsel on numerous
projects financed by the U.S. Export Import Bank, OPIC, and the International Finance Corporation, as well as commercial banks and the capital markets. Her financing experience includes aircraft, power
plants, hotels, telecommunications systems, mines, agribusiness, and processing, manufacturing, and environmental facilities. She has represented clients in international business transactions on the Indian
Subcontinent, Latin America, the Far East, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe and the Middle East.
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Marcia Wiss' practice concentrates on international project finance and business transactions, with a particular focus on the financial structuring of and political risks in international projects in emerging markets.
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Marcia has authored numerous publications and lectured on finance, investment, commercial and economic policy issues, political risk analysis, banking, foreign investment, public/private cooperation, and international finance, especially project finance, trade policy issues, trade with developing countries, privatization,
and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (of the World Bank). She is currently and has taught a course on international project finance and investment at Georgetown University Law Center for more than 30 years and is currently and has taught for a dozen years a class on international investment law at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
FÁDIA TUMA ANTUNES, ESQ
Wiss & Partners, Washington, D.C.
Fádia is Counsel at Wiss & Partners LLP based in Washington, DC, where she focuses her practice on corporate and contract law, cross-border business transactions, and international project finance and investment in emerging markets.
Fádia advises clients in structuring and securing funding for resilient and sustainable projects in a wide range of sectors and in navigating complex legal landscapes, including by helping clients adequately assess and allocate political and economic risks, identifying and acquiring adequate tools of risk mitigation, such as political risk insurance, and by advising on compliance with applicable laws and international standards. She has worked with clients in water, renewable energy, air and space, extractive, oil and gas and green technology industries in North America, Central America, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. She also assist clients on pro bono matters in local renewable projects and is passionate about promoting the added value of responsible investment practices.
Fádia is currently an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching graduate students International Project Finance and Investment. Prior to joining Wiss & Partners, she worked under Judge Peter Messitte at the US District Court of Maryland in Greenbelt, conducting international and comparative law analyses. She also worked in the private practice of law in Brazil, advising clients on Brazilian corporate law and civil liabilities and representing clients in litigation and arbitration.
Fádia earned her law degree from the Federal University of the State of Para in Brazil and her LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center. She also holds a certificate in Sustainbale Investing from Harvard Business School Online and an MBA in Finance from the University of the Potomac. Fádia is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of New York and Brazil.
LAWRENCE CAPLAN, ESQ
Wiss & Partners, Washington, D.C.
Lawrence Caplan is a tax planning, estate planning, corporate, real estate and asset protection attorney with over 35 years of experience.
He has worked with some of the most accomplished domestic and offshore asset protection firms in the world and has achieved Board Certification in the field of International Law by the Florida Bar. Mr. Caplan received an LL.M. in Taxation with high honors from the University of Miami School of Law, a Masters in International Public Policy with High Honors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law.
He is a member of the Florida and Oregon State Bars, the Southern District of Florida, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court Bar. He also has authored numerous articles on a variety of legal subjects which have appeared in national law reviews and legal journals.
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