Baker & Partners

Managing Partner: Stephen Baker

Number of partners: 9

Number of other fee-earners: 29

International Offices: Jersey, BVI, Cayman Islands

Baker & Partners is a leading independent offshore specialist litigation firm, headquartered in Jersey.Established in 2003, the firm celebrates its 20th yearin 2024 having grown capability and expertise, becoming almost 50 employees internationally and with significant appointments in 2023 in Cayman and BVI.

The firm’s expertise and high reputation is perhaps best exemplified by its instruction to lead and co-ordinate the multi-jurisdictional asset recovery/restitution efforts outside of Malaysia in the notorious 1MDB scandal described by the UK Guardian as the world’s biggest crime.The firm’s offices have worked seamlessly together, and collaboratively with other firms, in this high-stakes matter of public interest.

The firm has acted in some of the most substantial offshore asset recovery litigation. The firm has been responsible for recovering many hundreds of millions of pounds on behalf of corporations, individuals and governments.

The firm has unparalleled experience as courtroom lawyers and problem-solvers. The firm has maintained a conflict-free model, having no relationship with an associated financial or fiduciary services business. It is genuinely independent. The firm’s history of involvement in asset recovery (particularly in high profile kleptocrat cases), commercial and trust disputes, and insolvency work is highly unusual and probably unique.

The founding member of the firm, Stephen Baker, and those who built it were originally criminal barristers. A guiding principle of the firm has been the establishment of a team of independent minded lawyers who have the complete confidence of the courts before whom they appear, wholly focussed upon the fearless and independent representation of the interests of our clients.

The firm’s knowledge of cross-jurisdictional structures including those based on trusts and corporations was initially driven by the very substantial criminal fraud and money laundering cases handled by the founders in their roles as prosecuting counsel. Those cases would almost always involve confiscation following conviction. They would work with insolvency practitioners appointed by the Courts (including the Court’s own chief enforcement officers) to recover assets hidden behind complex trust and corporate structures. From this beginning and consequent deep understanding of the lawful and unlawful uses of offshore structures, the firm developed its expertise in the fields of civil fraud, asset recovery, trusts, commercial and contentious insolvency.

The firm considers that the scale and nature of the instructions received to reflect the high level of trust clients have in the team and the regard held for the firm’s offshore expertise.

Civil & Commercial Litigation

Contentious Trusts

Fraud & Asset Recovery

Insolvency

Criminal Prosecution & Defence

Regulatory Legal

Civil & Commercial Litigation: Stephen Baker, Simon Thomas, William Redgrave, Lynne Gregory, Amy Benest

Contentious Trusts: Stephen Baker, Simon Thomas, William Redgrave, Lynne Gregory, Amy Benest, Jared Dann, Adam Crane, Mungo Lowe

Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery: Stephen Baker, Simon Thomas,

William Redgrave, Cyril Whelan, Lynne Gregory, Jared Dann, Adam Crane, Mungo Lowe, Shaun Reardon-John

Insolvency: Stephen Baker, Simon Thomas, William Redgrave, Lynne Gregory, Amy Benest, Jared Dann, Adam Crane, Mungo Lowe, Shaun Reardon-John

Prosecution & Defence: Stephen Baker, Simon Thomas, William Redgrave

Regulatory: Stephen Baker, William Redgrave, Cyril Whelan, Lynne Gregory, Adam Crane, Shaun Reardon-John, Mungo Lowe

Criminal

International: Adam Crane, Shaun Reardon-John, Mungo Lowe

Jersey

Baker & Partners LLP

Midland Chambers, 2-10 Library Place, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, JE1 2BP

Legal: +44 (0) 1534 766254

Regulatory: +44 (0) 1534 719222

E-mail: [email protected]

BVI

Baker & Partners (BVI) Limited, 2nd Floor, Charles Court Building, 189 Main Street, Tortola, British Virgin Islands VG1110.

Tel: +1 284 394 9227

Cayman Islands

Baker & Partners (Cayman) Limited, P.O. Box 636, Buckingham Square, 720 West Bay Road, Cayman Islands, KY1-1107

Main Office: +13457463650 E-mail: [email protected]