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Provided by Kate Seaton

Asia-Pacific

Career

Kate is an aviation litigation specialist. She handles liability claims and insurance matters as well as non-contentious aviation matters such as contractual liability, conditions of carriage and risk management issues.

Kate’s clients include major airlines, helicopter and fixed wing operators, airport authorities and ground handlers, as well as insurers/reinsurers. She has supported aviation clients across more than 10 countries in Asia, including Japan, India, Philippines, South Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan, and has a particular focus on Thai law and jurisdiction.

In recent years, Kate has advised GA operators, helicopter operators and charterers on some of the industry’s high profile cases in Asia including:

• Total loss of CRJ200 at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu on 24 July 2024, 18 fatalities

• Total loss of ATR72-500 in Pokhara, Nepal on 15 January 2023, 72 fatalities

• Total loss of AS350 (converted to FX-11) helicopter at Shivapuri National Park, Nepal on 7 August 2024, 5 fatalities

• Total loss of AW139 helicopter in Pune district, Maharashtra, India on 24 August 2024

• Total loss of AW169 helicopter near Leicester City Football Club Stadium, UK on 27 October 2018, 5 fatalities

• Total loss of H125/AS350 helicopter in Solukhumbu district, Nepal on 11 July 2023, 6 fatalities

• Total loss of EC-130 helicopter in Kingdom of Bhutan in March 2023, 2 fatalities (Bhutan's first fatal aviation accident)

• Total loss of Sikorsky 76 in the Arabian sea off Mumbai in 2022, 4 fatalities

• Ground collision between A330-200 and ATR72-212 at Yangon Int’l Airport, Myanmar on 12 February 2015

• Over-run incident in Cebu (flight KE631), Philippines on 23 October 2022

• De-pressurisation and emergency landing in Taiwan of flight 189 on 22 June 2024

• Passenger injuries due to severe turbulence on approach to Kolkata, India on 7 June 2021

• Defending large ICC arbitration seated in Singapore for logistics company with governing law of Thailand.

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Kate Seaton represents airlines and other aviation companies, as well as the insurers and reinsurers, on a variety of disasters and losses across Asia-Pacific.

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