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Jess Webster
Jess Webster
Senior Associate — International Construction Disputes
E: jwebster@velaw.com T: +81.3.3282.0461
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Senior Associate — International Construction Disputes

Jess Webster

Jess Webster
Tokyo
T: +81.3.3282.0461

Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building
27th Floor
1-6-5 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
Japan

E: jwebster@velaw.com
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Jess Webster

Jess is a senior associate in our International Construction Disputes group, based in our Tokyo office. Jess advises clients on a range of complex cross-border disputes with a focus on construction and engineering disputes and disputes in the energy sector. She has experience of arbitration under a variety of institutional rules, adjudications, mediation and of litigation before the English courts.

Jess also has experience of front-end construction matters, including in relation to power and chemical plants, carbon capture projects, transportation projects and offshore wind. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating EPC contracts and other project documents including where the contractor is a JV/consortium.

Jess was previously on secondment at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Tokyo from January 2020 – December 2021, where she advised on various aspects of their business both contentious and non-contentious. Jess has also spent six months on secondment at ExxonMobil.

Jess is a licensed Registered Foreign Lawyer (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi) in Japan.

Experience Highlights

  • Advising an EPC contractor on various disputes arising out of a power plant project in North Africa

  • Acting for a main contractor in ICC arbitrations relating to a rapid transit rail system

  • Acting in the Commercial Court for an international oil and gas major in relation to a dispute arising under a long-term gas sales agreement

  • Advising an employer in relation to time and cost claims received from an EPC contractor in relation to the design and construction of a power plant in East Africa

  • Acting for a European energy major in an LCIA arbitration relating to the sale and prior operation of petroleum licenses offshore West Africa

  • Acting in LCIA proceedings in respect of a dispute under a Joint Venture Agreement regarding a US$500 million development project in Russia

  • Acting in the Technology and Construction Court for a multi-national construction and engineering company in relation to the public procurement process for elements of a large UK railway project

  • Acting for the main contractor in an adjudication regarding the construction of an onshore substation for an offshore wind farm

  • Advising a European biomass power plant owner in relation to issues arising under a fuel supply agreement, including claims in respect of delay and breach of quality obligations

  • Advising a real estate investment trust in relation to disputes arising out of a UK hotel project and acting in a related adjudication

Credentials

  • BPP University Law School, Legal Practice Course, 2016
  • Durham University, LL.B. (Hons), 2014
  • England and Wales
  • Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyer, Japan)

News & Insights

Insight
A Partnership of Shared Fate: The Realities and Risks of Consortiums

Published by The Overseas Construction Association of Japan INC. (OCAJI) Autumn 2025 Journal Vol. 64

December 9, 2025
Insight
Japan's Key Role in the SAF Industry

Published by SAF Investor

July 14, 2025
Insight
English Court of Appeal Dismisses Application for Judicial Review on Carbon Capture Project at Net Zero Teesside

V&E International Dispute Resolution Update

June 12, 2025
Insight
URS v BDW – Supreme Court Hands Down Highly Anticipated Judgment

V&E Construction Update

May 27, 2025