BAKER & PARTNERS - Key Persons
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- Member of the Association of Contentious Trust & Estate Practitioners
- Partner, Jersey
Amy is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust & Estate Practitioners.
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- Finance Manager
- Finance Manager, Jersey
Anne is IAB (International Association of Bookkeepers) and CAT (Certified Account Technician) qualified and is responsible for all account management matters across the partnership.
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- Executive Assistant, Jersey
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- Chief Executive
- Chief Executive, Baker Regulatory, Jersey
Barry has a unique insight into the AML/CFT threats and current challenges facing businesses, together with the most common regulatory failings leading to public sanction by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. He has unrivalled experience in the regulatory field.
After thirteen years in the role as the JFSC's Director of Enforcement and MLRO Barry Faudemer stood down in June 2020. Prior to joining the JFSC Barry was the Head of the Police and Customs Joint Financial Crimes Unit and has extensive experience of investigating financial crime, conducting regulatory investigations and managing financial intelligence.
Barry is a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy having studied how terrorist organisations fund their activities and has over forty years of enforcement experience. As a member of the National Risk Assessment Working Group identifying current AML/CFT threats to Jersey's finance industry Barry contributed to the National Risk Assessment.
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- Legal Receptionist, Jersey
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- Compliance Consultant
- Compliance Consultant. Baker Regulatory, Jersey
With over 50 years' experience, in the finance industry, Charles joined Baker Regulatory Services ("BRS") in October 2022, further enhancing the unparalleled expertise of our Regulatory Team. A former regulator and banker, Charles brings with him a wealth of knowledge of the industry with experience in Trust and Company Administration & Management, Accountancy as well as Treasury and Money Markets.
In addition to five years as a banking regulator, Charles has extensive experience in the industry holding the MLRO, MLCO and Compliance Officer roles key person positions.
Charles has also been involved with a number of professional bodies acting as a Committee Member and Deputy Chairman with the Jersey Compliance Officers Association for 8 years, and Private Practitioner member of the Jersey AML Steering Group and JFSC Electronic Personal Questionnaire Project Working Group.
Charles' areas of expertise include:
Policy and procedure drafting
Training
Regulatory examinations
Internal and external SAR reporting
CDD / KYC
Customer Risk Assessments
Expertise
AML 360° Assessment
Board Governance & Effectiveness Assessment
Consultancy
Training
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- Head of Marketing & Business Development, Jersey
- Marketing and Communications Leader
Cherith is a marketing and communications leader with extensive expertise in strategic branding, communications and sales enablement for scaling businesses.
Cherith was a founding Council member of the Jersey Good Business Charter. She holds various CMI and CIM qualifications and is a graduate of the University of St Andrews.
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- Executive Assistant
- Executive Assistant, Jersey
Claire is the Executive Assistant to Simon Thomas, William Redgrave, Lynne Gregory, Amy Benest and Jared Dann. She also provides secretarial and administrative support to other fee earners within the firm. Claire joined Baker & Partners in February 2013.
Claire has 30 years' experience working predominately in a legal environment.
She also provides secretarial and administrative support to other fee earners within the firm. Claire joined Baker & Partners in February 2013.
Claire has 30 years' experience working predominately in a legal environment.
Claire has previously worked at Ogier, Hawksford and former law firm Crills.
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- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate, Jersey
Eleanor Colley is a Jersey Advocate and is a Senior Associate at Baker & Partners.
Eleanor's work includes civil and commercial disputes, trust disputes and insolvency.
Eleanor previously working in a full-service law firm in Jersey where she specialised in corporate and commercial law before changing her focus and moving to dispute resolution where she worked on high value personal injury and complex clinical negligence claims as well as more general civil litigation representing corporate and high net worth clients.
Eleanor completed her undergraduate degree at Columbia University in New York City before studying Masters degrees at the University of Oxford and the College of Europe where she specialised in Russian and East European Studies. Eleanor worked at the European Commission in Brussels before returning to Jersey to practice law.
Eleanor is recognised as a ‘Rising Star' and a ‘Recommended and Key Lawyer' by the Legal 500 UK in the 2024, 2023 and 2022 editions and was named as one of eprivateclient's Top 35 under 35 in the Channel Islands for 2021 and 2020.
Expertise
Trust Disputes
Commercial & Civil Disputes
Insolvency
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- Paralegal
- Paralegal, Cayman Islands
Georgette is a paralegal based in the Cayman Islands at Baker & Partners.
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- Counsel
- Consultant Counsel, London
Gurprit Mattu was appointed as Counsel for Baker & Partners in April 2021, enhancing further the firm's team of excellent dispute resolution lawyers.
Gurprit is experienced in commercial/chancery dispute resolution and financial services law and regulatory law. She is an experienced interlocutory and trial advocate in disputes involving company and insolvency law, public law, confiscation, asset recovery, and corporate fraud. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and of the British Virgin Islands.
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- Marketing & Business Development Manager, Jersey
James joined Baker & Partners in January 2024 following his qualification in England and Wales in the same month. He relocated from Leeds, England where he trained at a specialist litigation and commercial law firm. Throughout his training, James worked on a varied range of complex cases across the UK predominantly in the Commercial & Civil Disputes and Regulatory Compliance & Investigations service areas. Most notably, James worked on high-value contractual disputes, complex contract drafting, sanctions advice, Coroner's inquests and investigations by numerous regulators. James also developed a keen knowledge of insurance and cyber & data protection law through his work.
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- Adjunct Professor of Trust Law With the Jersey Institute of Law
- Partner, Jersey
Jared Dann specialises in complex and high-value trust litigation. He also specialises in matters involving fraud and asset recovery.
Jared has considerable expertise in a range of contentious insolvency and restructuring matters, particularly where they involve multiple jurisdictions.
He joined Baker & Partners as a Partner in February 2024. Jared was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007 (currently non-practising) and thereafter practised at the commercial and chancery bar in London before joining a leading offshore firm in Jersey in 2011. Whilst at that firm, he was admitted as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey in 2014 and became a Partner in 2019; he then led the firm's Dispute Resolution team in Jersey from 2020 to 2023.
Jared is an experienced courtroom advocate, having appeared very regularly first in the English courts as a barrister, and subsequently in the Jersey courts at all levels. He frequently works closely with law firms in the UK and internationally, having developed a practice which often involves international and multi-jurisdictional issues.
Jared is Adjunct Professor of Trust Law with the Jersey Institute of Law and sits on the Legal and Regulatory Committee of ARIES - the Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts in the Channel Islands. Jared also sits on the Board of Examiners for the Jersey Bar Examinations.
Expertise
Fraud & Asset Recovery
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- Fellow of the Chartered
- Practice Director, Jersey
Julian is a Fellow of the Chartered and Certified Accountants, (FCCA), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FMgr CMI), holds the Diploma in Company Direction (FDipIOD) and a BA degree from the University of Gloucestershire.
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- Legal Receptionist, Jersey
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- Chartered Accountant
- Assistant Finance Manager, Jersey
Kay Jewer is a qualified chartered accountant with over 12 years experience working in a variety of roles within the Jersey Financial sector.
After graduating from University, Kay started her career working in audit for Deloitte Jersey. Whilst there she gained exposure to a wide range of clients within the Finance industry primarily within Real Estate and Private Equity. Here she undertook regulatory compliance reviews, created engagement budgets focusing on recoverability and co-ordinated cross-jurisdiction audits. Whilst at Deloitte she also completed her accounting qualification.
After leaving Deloitte, Kay moved into a managerial role in Private Equity Fund Administration for a large multi-national bank providing a range of support services for a major group client. Kay was responsible for maintaining good relationships with the client and ensuring specific KPIs were monitored and adhered to.
Prior to joining Baker & Partners, Kay worked in Corporate Services for an international family office focussing on financial and management reporting for a portfolio of Private Equity and Real Estate clients. Here Kay was responsible for the production and review of annual audited financial statements in line with applicable accounting standards and also the production and review of complex monthly consolidated management accounts for a large luxury Real Estate group.
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- Partner
- Solicitor
- Partner, Jersey
Lynne Gregory is an English qualified Solicitor and Jersey Advocate. Lynne studied at University College London, graduating with first class honours before completing her legal studies at the College of Law in London. She went on to train at the ‘Magic Circle' law firm, Allen & Overy, before qualifying into its litigation department where she carried out a broad range of commercial litigation, arbitration and public inquiry work.
Lynne subsequently worked at several of London's top firms including Baker & McKenzie and Charles Russell Speechlys, practising the full spectrum of commercial and civil dispute resolution.
In 2013, she became in-house lawyer at Centamin PLC, a FTSE 250 mining company based in Jersey. In this role, Lynne carried out a wide range of international regulatory, compliance, advisory and commercial work in addition to litigation spanning multiple jurisdictions including the UK, Africa, Australia and Canada.
Expertise
Fraud & Asset Recovery
Partner Lynne Gregory is now a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court for the Territory of the Virgin Islands
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- Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel
- Human Resources, Jersey
Maggie joined Baker & Partners in April 2018. She provides HR and office administrative support to the Firm.
Maggie is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and holds a Level 7 Diploma in Human Resources Management.
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- Consultant
- Consultant, London
- Grant Thornton As Managing Director
Marcus Wide is a Consultant, based in the Baker & Partners' London office.
Marcus was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1971 whilst working for Cooper Brothers and, on the recommendation of the Senior Partner, took a transfer to the Canadian firm. He then sought a transfer into the Insolvency group finding a particular interest in that area of practice.
In 1982 Marcus obtained his Trustee in Bankruptcy Licence, and was made a Vice President of the insolvency arm of the firm and in 1984 became a Senior Vice President and Partner.
Marcus had responsibility for Atlantic Canada, and subsequently for oversight of insolvency in the Caribbean.
From early in his career, Marcus became involved in reviewing fraudulent or criminal activity.
Marcus worked with PWC in the Caribbean for 15 years, investigating and pursuing assets in the area of fraudulently run offshore banks.
After retiring from PWC and his continuing consultancy, Marcus joined Grant Thornton as Managing Director of their BVI office. He won many significant assignments. These included being the principal Joint Liquidator of Stanford International Bank, with book liabilities in excess of U$8 billion and over 20,000 depositors. Investigations and asset tracing have given rise to multiple litigation in a number of jurisdictions not only to recover assets, but to get compensation from persons aiding and abetting the fraud. Marcus was also Joint Liquidator of CLF Limited, a Trinidadian conglomerate with 29 operating companies and allegations of improper dealings with related parties to investigate and seek recovery of assets or value. Creditors in that matter approximated US$4 billion. A Chilean fraud had a number of BVI companies which in turn controlled property in a number of other jurisdictions as well as property in BVI. Claims in that matter ran to approximately US$120 million.
Expertise
Fraud & Asset Recovery
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- Interim Head of Marketing & Business Development, Jersey
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- Associate, Cayman Islands
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- Senior Associate, Cayman Islands
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- Office Coordinator, Jersey
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- Managing Director, Cayman Islands
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- Compliance Consultant. Baker Regulatory, Jersey
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- Assistant Finance Manager, Jersey
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- Compliance Consultant. Baker Regulatory, Jersey
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- Senior Associate, Cayman Islands
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- Consultant Head of Investigations, Cayman Islands
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- Compliance Consultant. Baker Regulatory, Jersey
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- Compliance Consultant. Baker Regulatory, Jersey