Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice

King & Spalding is recognized as a global leader in the life and property casualty insurance sectors and assists clients in highly complex and sophisticated transactions and regulatory matters. Our team has represented private equity firms, major U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance companies, and banks, intermediaries, asset managers, and other financial institutions for over two decades in insurance industry mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, reorganizations, insurance securitizations, reserve and traditional financing, and related corporate and regulatory matters.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, we have broad experience in acquisitions of active and run-off companies, carve-out transactions, management buyouts, acquisitions of blocks of life, annuity and property casualty business, acquisitions from distressed insurers, acquisitions of insurance producers, renewal rights transactions, sponsored demutualizations, mutual affiliations and mergers, mutual holding company conversions, going private transactions, tender and exchange offers, proxy fights and takeover defense counseling.

In the securitization area, our experience includes reserve financing transactions, COLI/BOLI securitizations and embedded value transactions.

We also advise insurers, reinsurers and their private equity sponsors in property casualty, life and annuity reinsurance transactions, as well as in general corporate and related regulatory matters.

As a full-service firm with global reach, we support our transactions with class-leading teams in in other areas of the law, including tax, employee benefits, labor, intellectual property, real estate, environmental, CFIUS and litigation.