Afshan Mallik - Taylor Wessing

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Afshan joined the Employment, Pensions & Mobility group with experience of working closely with trustee clients on a wide range of pensions matters including buy-ins and buy-outs, equalisation, scheme sectionalisation, pension consultations, member transfer and options exercises, member disputes, scheme governance and pensions tax.

Afshan also regularly advises employers, lenders and investors on pensions issues arising in transactions, including issues relating to automatic enrolment, TUPE transfers and defined benefit schemes.

Afshan trained as a civil law barrister and also brings with her experience of working in industry with a 'Big 4' consultancy firm and secondment to a bank on commercial law matters.

Her past experience has also included advising trustees on an industry-wide multi-sectional pension scheme, advising trustees on scheme sectionalisation and crown guarantees in relation to a DB pension scheme, secondment to one of the UK's largest pensions schemes concentrating on pensions disputes.

CV

Since 2021 Senior Associate (Barrister), Taylor Wessing

2017 - 2021 Associate (Barrister), Squire Patton Boggs

2015 - 2017 Associate (Barrister), Herbert Smith Freehills

Career

Since 2021 Senior Associate (Barrister), Taylor Wessing

2017 - 2021 Associate (Barrister), Squire Patton Boggs

2015 - 2017 Associate (Barrister), Herbert Smith Freehills

Education

2016 Retirement Provision Certificate, Pensions Management Institute

2010 Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test, BPP

2007 Admitted as a practicing Barrister, Middle Temple

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Employment, pensions & mobility

Recovering pension overpayments: new case suggests trustees may need to adapt their processes

31 May 2024

by Afshan Mallik

Disputes & investigations

Distributing surplus to an employer – a helpful case for trustees

15 November 2023

Quick read

by Afshan Mallik

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Employment, pensions & mobility

Auto-enrolment update: The ongoing battle against non-compliance

3 April 2023

Briefing

by Afshan Mallik

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