About

Kadhims is a global legal and advisory consultancy based in London. The practice aims to continue the exceptional success rate its founder has built up over the years on servicing client matters and the resolution of disputes.

Kadhims takes a holistic cross-disciplinary approach, drawing upon its strong cross-border network connections and alliances. Kadhims partners with experienced third party providers of services in the legal, political risk, reputation management, financial, policy, and technology industries. In providing solutions to clients’ needs, Kadhims aims to prevent the escalation of disputes and protect business continuity and integrity.

Kadhims provides a partner-led, quality-driven service. There is a no-surprises policy, which means that fees and charging structures, which are often fixed, are transparent and communicated to the client from the outset and as the project develops.

Our services

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Dispute Prevention & Resolution​

Operating in today’s business climate is challenging and costly enough, without throwing conflicts into the mix.

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Project Advisory​

Sometimes a great project is not enough – a favourable business environment, and trustworthy project partners are also needed. 

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Litigation Funding

A great case is worth nothing without the financial backing to take it all the way to a successful judgment or award.

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Arbitration and Mediation

Noor acts as arbitrator and mediator in disputes of all natures and sizes, both domestic and international.

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Art and Cultural Heritage Advisory

The art world is mysterious and opaque and requires a special understanding and type of expertise to navigate its inner workings.

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Our Sectors

  • Technology and Telecommunications
  • NFTs and Blockchain
  • Energy and Renewables
  • Finance and litigation funding
  • Corporate shareholder and partnership issues
  • Creative industries, art, and intellectual property rights
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Off-shore corporate disputes

Profile

Noor Kadhim

Noor is an English law-qualified Solicitor Advocate with 15 years’ experience in dispute resolution. Noor’s core competencies are in litigation, arbitration, litigation funding, and art and cultural heritage. She has served in-house as a Deputy Counsel at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and as advisor to numerous litigation funds and insurance providers, including as in house assessor. Noor’s regions of focus are Turkey, France, French-speaking Africa, and the Arabic-speaking world. She has experience working in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Paris, and London where Kadhims is based. Her clients include litigation funds, governments and state-owned entities, as well as international corporate and high net worth clients with projects across the globe. She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Italian.

Positions Held
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the New York Center for Art Law
  • Member of the IBA Sub-Committee on Art and Cultural Heritage
  • Guest Lecturer on Art Law at Queen Mary University
  • Special Counsel to Phoenix Advisors (UAE) on Knowledge Series
  • Consultant to AxiaFunder (London)
  • Counsel to Alphasight on Litigation Investment

Noor Kadhim’s experience includes:

  • Representing a Dubai individual on a AED 1M shareholder dispute with a FinTech company in the DIFC Courts.
  • Representing the Republic of Iraq in an ICSID arbitration brought by a German company in the power plant sector (value $1 billion).
  • Represented a Cypriot bank in ICSID (bilateral investment treaty) arbitration against Greece under its 2011 sovereign debt restructuring (value $3 billion). Partially successful for the claimant on the merits in proceedings that concluded in 2018.
  • Advised Italian investors in preparing a claim for breach of an investment treaty against an East African state (UNCITRAL rules) regarding a terminated biofuels project of value $60-100 million.
  • Represented a Turkish hotel owner in $11 million mismanagement claim against a five-star hotel chain (ICC, London).
  • Serving as co-counsel with a Turkish firm to advise Turkish subcontractors in the preparation of their ICC claim ($20 million) against a U.S. company for wrongful termination and calling on a performance bond in a construction dispute in Guinea.
  • Represented the national oil company of an Eastern European state in its defence of a $10 million claim for breach of a guarantee connected to a loan facility given to its subsidiary, in LCIA arbitration proceedings. The claim was brought by a major European lending institution.
  • Represented various state-owned entities in defending construction claims under International Criminal Court (ICC), Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre (ADCACC) and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) rules when part of a small team working in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Successful in all cases.
  • Represented a German art collector in a claim in English High Court against a gallery for theft of a Warhol work, using the English tort of conversion. Achieved a full settlement plus partial costs reimbursement.
  • Represented an English antiques collector in his English court claim against an auction house for the misattribution of an 18th century mirror. Achieved a full settlement.
  • Represented a Malaysian client (and politically exposed person (PEP)) in a claim against a U.K. individual for fraudulent misrepresentation valued at $18.5 million. Obtained and retained a worldwide freezing order against the defendant.

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Dispute Prevention & Resolution

Operating in today’s business climate is challenging and costly enough, without throwing conflicts into the mix. Kadhim aims to simplify the process of dispute prevention and resolution, and reduce stress for the client. Kadhims builds upon the proven track record of successes achieved by its founder in working with lean and expert teams in resolving disputes for clients at a price they can afford. Kadhim’s clients range from individuals to small and large companies, organisations and governments. The range of disputes and contractual documentation varies from the high value and the complex to the simple and the lower value. Given Kadhims method of tailoring each team to the requirements of the project, no instruction is too small or too large. Techniques include: mediation, negotiation, litigation, arbitration, and working with investigation and reputation management partners where needed to achieve a successful resolution of disputes for clients, including settlement, where cases do not need to go fully to trial.

Services include:

  • Drafting protective clauses in the pre-contract stage
  • Negotiation of legal contracts and settlements
  • Representation of claimants and respondents in litigation or arbitration proceedings
  • Reputation management and risk advisory reports
  • Enforcement of judgments and awards or resisting enforcement

Project Advisory

Sometimes a great project is not enough – a favourable business environment, and trustworthy and competent project partners are also needed. 

Kadhims assists clients on choosing the most appropriate jurisdiction for their projects, and on team building and project management for such matters. Teams may consist of local counsel, transactional lawyers, accountants, and agents having expertise in the jurisdictions and subject matter of the deals in question. I can also assist clients with matching projects with joint venture partners where required.

Kadhims also provides clients, ranging from funds and financial institutions, with pre-project due diligence reporting services in the pre-funding stage. Assisted by sector and jurisdictional specialists, these services cover investigation assessments on economic, environmental, social, and political impact. 

Services also include:

  • Viability Studies
  • Contract and Legal Review Services
  • Strategic Partner Investigation
  • Red Flag Reporting
  • Policy Review Services
  • Legislation Review Services

Litigation Funding

A great case is worth nothing without the financial backing to take it all the way to a successful judgment or award. Noor has years of experience in advising clients, be they law firms or funders, on the merits of funding cases. Kadhims assist clients/counsel seeking litigation funding to place single cases or with putting together portfolios to be funded. Kadhim advises on and drafts memoranda for funders, on such matters as merits, jurisdiction, quantum and enforcement. Kadhims works with a deep network of funders of all sizes and backgrounds spanning across the world, from North America, Russia, Europe and the Middle East. Kadhims provides legal knowledge-backed brokerage services, its founder having formerly worked for Vannin Capital, historically one of the largest global litigation funders in the market. Other clients include Axia Funder and Phoenix Advisors. 

Kadhims services include:

  • Advising funders on the merits of cases
  • Case origination services for funders
  • Advising would-be litigants and their counsel on funding applications and placements

Arbitration​

Noor acts as arbitrator and mediator in disputes of all natures and sizes, both domestic and international.

Art and Cultural Heritage Advisory

The art world is mysterious and opaque and requires a special understanding and type of expertise to navigate its inner workings.

 

Kadhims provides transactional, dispute resolution, and mediation services to clients in the creative industries for clients including collectors, gallerists, artists, museums and auctions houses. The founder of Kadhims has owned an independent curatorial art business and has worked with the creative industries as both a participant and an advisor for over a decade. This gives Kadhims a truly unique and cross-border understanding of the art world. As a member of the New York Center for Art Law, the Institute of Art & Law in the United Kingdom, and a member of the IBA Sub-Committee for Art, Noor is well-placed across jurisdictions to advise on all of clients’ contractual and non-contractual needs.

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