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Jessica Beess und Chrostin is a partner in King & Spalding’s Trial and Global Disputes Group. Jessica’s practice focuses on complex international dispute resolution, with particular expertise in high-stakes commercial, investor-state, construction, and global award enforcement disputes. Jessica regularly represents clients in international disputes in the infrastructure, oil and gas, mining, construction, and renewable energy sectors, and has significant experience in consumer goods, real estate, and telecommunications disputes.
Jessica is a zealous advocate for her clients and strives tirelessly to ensure they receive the best legal representation. She understands that representing her clients’ interests requires understanding their business and objectives, and tailoring the strategy to achieve the best possible outcome, whether inside or out of the hearing room. Jessica represents clients in arbitrations before all major arbitral forums, including the AAA, ICC, ICDR, ICSID, JAMS, LCIA, and SCC as well as ad hoc arbitrations, such as UNCITRAL. She is experienced in all phases of international arbitration and award enforcement, and handles disputes from inception to collection. Jessica also regularly represents clients global award recognition and enforcement efforts as coordinating counsel and in litigations before U.S. courts under the New York Convention and the Federal Arbitration Act.
Jessica represents clients in jurisdictions across the world. Her matters include representing a wind farm owner in a construction arbitration dispute with a turbine supplier and operations & maintenance provider (concerning the latter’s failure to comply with O&M obligations and failure to remediate certain serial defects); representing a client in a multi-hundred million dollar commercial dispute with Oman over a project in the extractive industries (concerning certain licenses and failure to use best efforts to support the project); representing Chevron Corporation (U.S.A.) and Texaco Petroleum Company (U.S.A.) in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty (concerning the scope of environmental release agreements and due process violations by a court of Ecuador that issued a multi-billion dollar fraudulent judgment against Chevron); and representing a sovereign state in a global campaign to enforce an ICC arbitration award against another sovereign.
Jessica is a frequent writer and speaker on topics relating to international arbitration and has been recognized by IFLR Americas as a Rising Star in Commercial Arbitration and by CPR as a Rising Star in Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Smit-Lowenfeld Prize, which recognizes annually an outstanding article published in the previous year on any aspect of international arbitration, for her article on “The Illegality Objection in Investor-State Arbitration” (co-authored with Caline Mouawad, published in Arbitration International, Volume 37, Issue 1).
Jessica is fluent in English and German, and proficient in French and Spanish. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A. cum laude from Columbia University. She has conducted legal studies at Cambridge University.
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