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St Helier, London

Adv Adv Stephen Baker

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Position

Partner advocate. Specialist areas: international asset recovery, international co-operation and financial crime. Important cases: AG v O’Brien; AG v Caversham & Bell; Abacha; Cantrade Bank; Hanover Bank; Federal Republic of Brazil v Durant International Corp and Kildare Finance Ltd. Practises at both Jersey and English Bars.

Career

Trained 7 Bedford Row, London; qualified 1989; Fraser Milner Casgrain, Toronto, Canada 1989; 7 Bedford Row 1990; senior legal adviser Jersey Attorney General’s Department 2001-03; principal, BakerPlatt 2003; door tenant 7 Bedford Row.

Member

ICC Fraudnet – Jersey Representative; International Criminal Bar Association; Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists.

Education

Durham School; Manchester University (LLB Hons); Cambridge University (LLM); Inns of Court School of Law.

Practice Areas

Contentious trusts and probate; Crime - corporate; Fraud

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Fraud: A Jersey perspective

by Emma Jordan, Ed Shorrock, Cyril Whelan

- Baker & Partners

Legal Developments in Jersey

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Jersey opens doors to Private Placement Funds

The Jersey Financial Services Commission has adopted a new policy setting out a fast track, self-certification procedure for authorising a "Private Placement Fund", being a fund: • which is either established in Jersey or managed in Jersey • which is closed ended • whose units are offered to not more than fifty investors • which only admits "sophisticated investors" or professional investors" (see appendix)

- Carey Olsen
Jersey Private Placement Funds

From January 2012 a new streamlined regulatory authorisation process for the establishment of privately placed funds is available in Jersey.

- Mourant Ozannes
Treasury services for local Jersey property developer clients

Enhancing client cash deposits

- Ogier
Directors' concerns: Distributions and dividends

Distributions and dividends

- Mourant Ozannes
The Precarious Business of Providing a Reference

Providing a reference for a departing or former employee can be a tricky task. Any negligent or deliberate errors could lead to compensation pay-outs and it is therefore crucial to strike the right balance.

- Bedell Cristin
To Earmark Or Not To Earmark

This briefing sets out some of the concerns that clients are sharing in relation to earmarking trust assets for share plan management and a practical solution to this problem.

- Ogier
Establishing and Operating a Cayman Investment Fund

A. INVESTMENT FUNDS 1. Documents 1.1 Generally, the documents involved in the establishment of an investment fund in the Cayman Islands include the following:

- Ogier
Revoking the Irrevocable

In the matter of the DDD Settlements [2011] JRC243

- Ogier
Incorporating a Guernsey Company

Guernsey is a popular jurisdiction in which to incorporate companies for use on a wide range of transactions, including investment funds, private equity, structured finance and securitisations.

- Carey Olsen
What price disclosure? Employee anonymity after Shah v HSBC

What price disclosure? Employee anonymity after Shah v. HSBC The UK Court of Appeal has provided some welcome comfort to nervous employees of financial institutions faced with the prospect of having to give evidence against their customers in cases involving disclosures made to the authorities under the “proceeds of crime” legislation.

- Carey Olsen