Stephen Baker

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

Having been called to the English Bar in 1989, Stephen is a highly experienced Court room Advocate, specialising in complex criminal and regulatory law, as well as international commercial and trusts litigation.

Stephen é um especialista na condução de investigações sobre o fluxo de pagamentos suspeitos de corrupção feitos a políticos através de Jersey e tem sido responsável por relatórios de actividades suspeitas e investigações em nome do Procurador-Geral de Jersey e da Comissão de Serviços Financeiros de Jersey.

Tem também experiência em casos que envolvem fraudes complexas e branqueamento de capitais, em especial os que têm uma dimensão internacional e política. No Reino Unido, Stephen tem sido instruído para processar o Serious Fraud Office, o Inland Revenue, o Her Majesty's Customs and Excise e o Department of Public Prosecutions Head Quarters.

Outside of Jersey and the UK, he has advised the United Nations on matters of confiscation and been instructed by a large non-European state to advise on meeting legislative standards set by the Financial Action Task Force. In the past, he was appointed Jersey Crown Advocate and had regularly acted for foreign governments including the Federal Republic of Brazil, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission.

Stephen regularly speaks on the topics of corruption and asset recovery to a global audience and is frequently asked by the national media to comment on matters of international co-operation in compliance and confiscation.

Stephen is the Jersey representative of FraudNet and is also a member of their business development team.  In addition, he holds the position of Chair of the Board of Trustees Endowment Committee at the Jersey Institute of Law.

In 2017, Stephen gained international peer recognition for his work in asset recovery, having been appointed Senior Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Subcommittee. Throughout his two-year appointment, Stephen engaged with IBA’s global membership and worked with other IBA committees to contribute to the organisation’s conferences.  From janeiro 2025 until dezembro 2026 Stephen is co-chair of the International Bar Association’s Asset Recovery Committee.