Stephen Baker - Senior Partner

Stephen Baker

"Stephen Baker is a leading disputes specialist who ably advises clients on litigation relating to trusts and liquidations. He also works on fraud cases as well as related asset tracing".

Chambers & Partners 2023

Stephen Baker is an English barrister and Jersey Advocate. He is Senior Partner at Baker & Partners.

He was called to the English bar in 1989 and is a highly experienced court room advocate, having conducted many contested trials. He practised at the English bar for many years before moving to Jersey in 2003 where he established Baker & Partners.

He specialises in complex international financial litigation including trust and commercial disputes as well as civil fraud.

Educated at Manchester and Cambridge Universities he has a first class Masters degree in law.

Experience

He practiced daily in the English courts until 2001 when he moved to Jersey. Since then he has been instructed repeatedly in major litigious matters including many of Jersey’s leading contentious trust matters. He is frequently instructed to advise on the strategic approach to be adopted to cross border litigation.

Stephen was the Chairman of the International Bar Association (IBA) Asset Recovery Subcommittee between 2018 and 2020. In 2019 Stephen was called to the BVI Bar.  Stephen is the Chairman of the Institute of Law in Jersey.  He is also a director of Baker Regulatory Services Limited.

He acted for the Second Defendant in UCC v Bender & Koonmen, a substantial constructive trust and restitutionary claim. He also regularly acts for foreign governments in asset recovery actions. In recent years he has acted for the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission. He is expert in the interaction between the civil and criminal law in fraud cases.

He acted for the Federal Republic of Brazil in its first substantial asset recovery action outside of the territory seeking the recovery of assets held through a Jersey unit trust; allegedly to the benefit of a senior Brazilian politician.

He was a member of the FATF style review team, carried out by the OFGBS on Gibraltar and has advised a very substantial non-European state on its FATF requirements. He was a member of the Jersey team that responded to a FATF review.

He is frequently instructed as a reporting professional by or at the insistence of the Jersey Financial Services Commission in regulatory matters focused particularly upon the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing procedures of Jersey financial institutions.

He is also regularly instructed by the Attorney General of Jersey in the most complex criminal cases.

 

Rankings

  • Legal500 Hall of Fame 2023
  • Legal500 Leading Individual 2023
  • Chambers & Partners Global 2023 Top Ranked Dispute Resolution
  • Chambers & Partners UK Leading Individual 2022
  • WWL Commercial Litigation Thought Leader 2023

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