Stephen Baker

Practice Areas

Stephen Baker is an English barrister, Jersey Advocate and is called to the Bar in BVI. He is the Managing Partner at Baker & Partners.

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

He is expert in unravelling complex offshore trust structures and resolving the issues which arise from such structuring. He is frequently instructed to advise on the strategic approach to be adopted to cross border litigation.

Career

Stephen regularly acts for foreign governments in asset recovery actions. He acts for the liquidators of the offshore structure used to launder the proceeds of the 1MDB fraud. He has also acted for the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the Kenyan Ethics Anti-Corruption Commission.

Professional Memberships

Stephen was former Chairman of the IBA Anti-Corruption Asset Recovery Sub-committee and is Vice Chair of the IBA Asset Recovery Committee.