Law firm

Kobre & Kim LLP

Kobre & Kim LLP is named as solicitors in at least 30 UK judgments from 2014 to 2026, most often in commercial disputes and arbitration.

30
judgments
14
in the last five years
1
in the Supreme Court or Privy Council
6
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Commercial disputes10
  • Arbitration10
  • Public international law and sanctions8
  • Cross-border disputes4
  • Insolvency and restructuring2
  • Public and administrative law2
  • Construction and engineering1
  • Trusts, wills and private client1

Courts

  • Supreme Court1
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)6
  • High Court23

Counsel most often instructed

  • Andrew Stafford12
  • Richard Clarke8
  • Patrick Green5
  • Andrew Legg3
  • Constantine Partasides3
  • Georgios Petrochilos3
  • James Lewis3
  • Jonathan Caplan3

Judgments by year

  • 20263
  • 20251
  • 20242
  • 20235
  • 20223
  • 20210
  • 20203
  • 20194
  • 20181
  • 20173
  • 20162
  • 20151
  • 20142

Cases later courts cite most

Cases Kobre & Kim LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
6 Dec 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 1595 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Functional state immunity depends on the capacity in which the former head of state or state agent acted. The court must examine the individual acts pleaded…
16
25 Feb 2019
[2019] EWHC 366 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
An implied representation requires clear words or conduct, assessed objectively in context. Silence or a representee’s uncommunicated assumption will not…
13
6 Oct 2023
[2023] EWHC 2478 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A defendant domiciled abroad is ordinarily sued in the courts of that domicile under Article 4.1 of the Brussels Recast Regulation. The special jurisdiction…
7
10 Apr 2017
[2017] EWHC 756 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
For security for costs, the court must examine the substance of each application, rather than its procedural form or the hearing at which it will be…
5
16 Aug 2019
[2019] EWHC 2241 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
A tribunal’s unchallenged determination of the juridical seat of an arbitration may bind the parties when the arbitration agreement authorised the tribunal to…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
6 Aug 2026
[2026] EWHC 2091 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A case-management stay is governed by a single question: whether it is in the interests of justice. Parallel proceedings alone are insufficient, but a strong…
4 Mar 2026
[2026] UKSC 9 · Supreme Court
A state waives adjudicative immunity under a treaty where the treaty’s words, interpreted under public international law, clearly and unequivocally express…
1
23 Feb 2026
[2026] EWHC 368 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For the purposes of a treaty jurisdiction clause, “measures” is not confined to formal legislative, regulatory or administrative acts. It may include informal…
1
17 Jul 2025
[2025] EWCA Civ 905 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whether a treaty condition limits an investor’s right to arbitrate is a question of international-law interpretation. Under the Vienna Convention on the Law of…
1 Aug 2024
[2024] EWHC 2037 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
For the purposes of a challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996, treaty requirements forming part of the substantive protection afforded by an…
2
1 Feb 2024
[2024] EWCA Civ 52 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An appeal court may impose or vary a condition on permission to appeal under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, Part 52.18, after permission has been granted where…
2
6 Oct 2023
[2023] EWHC 2478 (KB) · High Court: King's Bench Division
A defendant domiciled abroad is ordinarily sued in the courts of that domicile under Article 4.1 of the Brussels Recast Regulation. The special jurisdiction…
7
24 May 2023
[2023] EWHC 1226 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Recognition of an authentic ICSID award under the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966 is ordinarily confined to registration and does not…
1
27 Jan 2023
[2023] EWHC 235 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
On a summary assessment of costs, the court must examine the costs statement as a whole, including the hourly rates claimed, the allocation of work among…
27 Jan 2023
[2023] EWHC 234 (Comm) · High Court: Commercial Court
Joinder under Civil Procedure Rules 1998, rule 19.2(2)(a), requires a fact-specific assessment of whether adding the proposed party is desirable so that all…
6 Dec 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 1595 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Functional state immunity depends on the capacity in which the former head of state or state agent acted. The court must examine the individual acts pleaded…
16
26 Jul 2022
[2022] EWCA Civ 1052 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Statutory immunity for a head-of-state’s family member under the State Immunity Act 1978, section 20(1)(b), depends on being part of the head of state’s…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which Kobre & Kim LLP is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with Kobre & Kim LLP. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.