Baker & Partners is a Jersey law firm specialising in civil & commercial litigation, contentious trusts, financial services regulation, crime, international co-operation & asset recovery. The firm has been involved in many highly complex cases involving cross-border crime. These cases have included the most serious instances of political corruption, large scale fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering. The firm are instructed by the Federal Republic of Brazil and in November 2012 successfully sought judgment in a civil fraud action to recover US$10.5million from a major fraud that was operated for the benefit of, amongst others, Paulo Maluf, the former Mayor of Sao Paulo.