{"id":44206,"date":"2024-09-10T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/?post_type=press_releases&p=44206"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:52:06","slug":"continued-growth-at-baker-partners-in-the-cayman-islands-and-london","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/developments\/press-releases\/continued-growth-at-baker-partners-in-the-cayman-islands-and-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued growth at Baker & Partners in the Cayman Islands and London."},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading offshore law firm Baker & Partners has welcomed Jennifer Colegate as Partner in the Cayman Islands.<\/strong> In addition to Jennifer\u2019s appointment, Tara Liao has joined the firm’s London office to support clients in cross border disputes.<\/p>\n

Jennifer is a commercial litigator specialising in cross-border insolvency and restructuring. Jennifer\u2019s expertise encompasses contentious workouts and distressed debt situations as well as investigations, asset tracing and enforcement and recovery work.<\/p>\n

Jennifer is named in the 2024 Legal 500 rankings as a Next Generation Partner. She is also ranked in Band 5 in the Chambers & Partners directory where clients have described her as \u2018a standout practitioner\u2019 as well as \u2018whip-smart and super-responsive.\u2019 She previously practiced with Mayer Brown in London and Hong Kong before relocating to the Cayman Islands in 2016.<\/p>\n

Jennifer\u2019s appointment marks the third Partner appointment to the firm\u2019s Cayman Islands office. The continued growth of the office is a result of continued client demand and complex offshore instructions covering restructuring, insolvency and commercial litigation matters.<\/p>\n

Tara is joining Baker & Partners as Counsel while maintaining her practice as a barrister in the UK and Hong Kong. She is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and is dual qualified in the UK and in Hong Kong. She sat as a Deputy District Judge in Hong Kong in 2021 and 2023 and is ranked as a leading junior in the Commercial Disputes category by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n

This year marks the firm’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Since its inception by Jersey Advocate Stephen Baker, Baker & Partners has expanded from Jersey into the Cayman Islands, London and BVI and now employs over 50 people.<\/p>\n

Managing Partner, Stephen Baker commented: \u201cThis is an exciting time for the firm as we continue to grow our offices globally. Jennifer has been involved in cases of significant Cayman and international interest spanning a number of industries from investments funds and banking and finance to petrochemicals and commercial real estate. I\u2019m delighted she has made the move to Baker & Partners. Tara is an accomplished lawyer with invaluable expertise, and I look forward to working with her. It has been a great year to celebrate and reflect on our achievements over the past 20 years, and to build the firm to be ready for the next 20. I have no doubt that Jennifer and Tara will play a key role in our continued success for clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

For over 20 years, Baker & Partners has been at the forefront of some of the most complex and high value offshore commercial and trust litigation. Baker & Partners is unique among offshore law firms in being led by a partnership of very experienced courtroom advocates who have between them conducted a very large number of trials in England, Jersey, the Cayman Islands and the BVI.<\/p>\n

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