>>7622675One step in "The Monsanto Process" (the catalytic production of acetic acid from methanol) is the reductive elimination of acetyl iodide from a rhodium complex.
The microscopic reverse of that step is oxidative addition of the metal into the acid iodide.
So it should be possible.
I think I've seen examples with acyl fluorides before but I'm too inebriated to dig them up.