Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in its strategic partnership with Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE: JHG). As a part of the transaction, Janus Henderson will become Guardian’s investment grade public fixed income asset manager. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Guardian is a life insurer and a provider of employee benefits.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partner Andrew Jamieson and M&A partner William D. Regner and includes M&A associate Hadel Alfagir, executive compensation and employee benefits partner Simone Hicks and associate Rebeka Cohan, investment management partner Jonathan Adler, counsel Colleen Bernaiche and associate Daniel Randazzo, and tax partner Rafael Kariyev and associates Charlie Daley and Miriam Yeger.