Dorcas Seah

Dorcas Seah is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP, specialising in arbitration and mediation. She regularly advises and acts for marine (Hull & Machinery and Protection & Indemnity) and other insurers, asset financiers, mortgagee banks, shipowners, charterers, ship managers, trade finance banks, commodity traders, shipyards, aircraft leasing companies, port authorities and bunker suppliers. She has wide-ranging experience handling marine, aviation and international trade disputes in the Singapore High Court and in arbitration (SIAC, SCMA, ICC and LMAA).

She represented a mortgagee bank in enforcement against ten vessels worth over US$250 million following the collapse of Hin Leong Trading, and advised an informal steering committee of bank creditors on the US$3.3 billion debt restructuring of Pacific International Lines. She also represented the mortgagee bank in BTS Tankers Pte Ltd v Energy & Commodity Pte Ltd, where two defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for contempt in failing to disclose assets pursuant to Mareva injunction orders. She acted for an inventory financing bank in interpleader actions arising from conflicting proprietary claims against cargo seized and sold by the judicial managers of Hin Leong Trading. Her experience includes collisions, allisions, groundings, oil pollution, marine insurance, vessel arrests, judicial sales, and disputes relating to bills of lading, charterparties, letters of credit, and commodity sale and purchase agreements.

Dorcas holds an LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the University of Bristol (2015), where she graduated at the top of her class and was awarded the Debbie Phillips Law Prize. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2017.