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Omar Malik, LLM Tax

Counsel

St. Louis
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Omar drafts, reviews and updates complex trusts and estate plans and handles sophisticated tax matters for individuals and businesses. Additionally, he drafts and reviews various types of legal, financial, tax and governance documents and advises on estate, gift and generation skipping tax questions as well as business succession, legacy and charitable planning.

Prior to joining Thompson Coburn, Omar worked at Edward Jones where he was a leader in their Wealth Management unit working directly with financial advisors and clients as a subject matter expert on tax, estate planning and investments. In addition, in his role as an Enterprise Product Counsel in Legal, he provided strategic and tactical support for initiatives impacting the firm's wealth management and investment tools, systems and technology.

Before that, he worked as an attorney at a law firm in the St. Louis area and focused primarily on Business Taxation, Estate Planning and general Corporate transactional and litigation matters.

After graduating from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, he received his Tax LLM from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He then worked in domestic and international tax planning roles for public accounting firms and in-house with a global manufacturing firm in the Chicago area.

Omar serves as President of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) of St. Louis, on the Board of Trustees of Mary Institute and Country Day School (MICDS) and enjoys travelling with his family, running, playing racquet sports, and exploring different cultures and cuisines.