The International Bar Association acts as the global voice of the legal profession with over 200 jurisdictions and 80,000 members represented.
Stephen Baker (pictured), Managing Partner of Baker & Partners, has served as an officer on the committee for several years and will, in the period 2025 -2027, co-chair the committee with Kate McMahon, of Edmonds Marshall McMahon.
Stephen has built a specialism in complex multijurisdictional litigation. This includes asset recovery where he acts for companies, natural persons and also governments bringing claims and tracing assets across borders and enforcing judgement. This appointment does much to reflect the fact that Stephen has worked tirelessly with successive attorneys general to craft structures and methods of International asset recovery and repatriation which have been widely adopted elsewhere, which remain functional to this day and which have done much to enhance the reputation of Jersey as an international finance centre.
The Asset Recovery Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) exists to provide an international platform for private and public-sector practitioners, civil society, international and regional organisations, policy makers, experts and funders to discuss and develop best practices in asset tracking and recovery.
Stephen commented: “Jersey is proven to be progressive and cooperative on the international stage for cross-border proceedings and enforcement. It is important we continue to stay ahead, and to engage with responsible practitioners near and far. The IBA presents a truly global forum to do so. I am pleased to take on this role alongside Kate McMahon, founding partner of Edmonds Marshall McMahon. We look forward to working alongside the committee to advance the rule of law which is of course fundamental to the field of asset recovery”
