Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Resolution Life in the acquisition of 100% of its shares by Nippon Life Insurance Company (Nippon Life) at a valuation of $10.6 billion. For more information, please see the press release.

Resolution Life is a global life insurance group focusing on the acquisition and management of portfolios of life insurance policies. Nippon Life is the core company of the Nippon Life group, which consists of multiple group companies operating life insurance and asset management businesses in the Asia-Pacific region and globally and is the largest private asset owner in Japan.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partner David Grosgold and counsel Brita Siepker and includes partners Nicholas Potter and Kristen Matthews, associates Thomas DeMarzo, Michael Ellis and Nicole Gany and law clerk Emma Street, international counsel Sam Whitaker and associates Edoardo Troina and Gavin Benson, tax partner Daniel Priest and associates Sabrina Hsieh and Sophie Mirzaian, finance partner Almas Daud, counsel Gary Murphy and associate Eoin Molloy, employee benefits and executive compensation partner Jonathan Lewis and associate Katlin Bowers, IP and technology transactions counsel Caroline Geiger, intellectual property associate Melody Godbolt, antitrust partner Timothy McIver, international counsel Anne-Mette Heemsoth, and national security partner Rick Sofield and associates Jordan Corrente Beck and John Satira.