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
Dispute Prevention & Resolution
Operating in today’s business climate is challenging and costly enough, without throwing conflicts into the mix.
Project Advisory
Sometimes a great project is not enough – a favourable business environment, and trustworthy project partners are also needed.
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.
- 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.
News and Insights
Shortlisted in Best Lawyers 2023 Guide in Art Law
Legal Directory Recognition
Upheaval of Dispute Resolution Centres in the Gulf: Recent Developments in Qatar and Dubai
Article in Kluwer Arbitration Blog