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.
Litigation Funding
A great case is worth nothing without the financial backing to take it all the way to a successful judgment or award.
Arbitration & Mediation
Noor acts as arbitrator and mediator in disputes of all natures and sizes, both domestic and international.
Art & Cultural Heritage Advisory
The art world is mysterious and opaque and requires a special understanding and type of expertise to navigate its inner workings.
Our sectors
- Technology and Telecommunications
- NFTs and Blockchain
- Energy and Renewables
- Finance and litigation funding
- Off-shore corporate disputes
- Corporate shareholder and partnership issues
- Creative industries, art, and intellectual property rights
- Data protection and privacy
Team
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.
Recent experience
Recent 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.