Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in its strategic partnership with HPS Investment Partners. For more information, please see the companies’ press release.

Guardian is a provider of life, disability, dental and other benefits.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partner William Regner and insurance M&A partner Andrew Jamieson and includes insurance M&A partner Marilyn Lion, counsel Robert Fettman, international consultant Clare Swirski and associates Alexandra Grady and Laura Jackson, investment management partner Jonathan Adler, counsel Colleen Bernaiche and associate Yueting Chen, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Simone Hicks and law clerk Joe Candelora, tax partner Rafael Kariyev, associate Miriam Yeger and law clerk Charlie Daley and IP and technology transactions counsel Caroline Geiger.