• Global Atlantic in the pending reinsurance of a $19.2 billion block of MetLife’s U.S. retail annuity and life insurance business.
• Resolution Life in a strategic transaction with Farmers New World Life Insurance Company (FNWL) involving the cession of FNWL’s in-force individual life business to Resolution Life subsidiary Security Life of Denver, a flow reinsurance treaty covering the current range of individual life products, and retrocession to Swiss Re of all of the reinsured term life liabilities.
• American International Group in the sale of Crop Risk Services to American Financial Group for approximately $240 million.
• Nassau Financial Group, a Golden Gate Capital portfolio company, in its strategic business combination with Angel Island Capital Management.
• BRP Group in its acquisition of Westwood Insurance Agency.
• Venerable in its transaction with Manulife to reinsure approximately $22 billion of variable annuity business from John Hancock.
• Primerica in its strategic acquisition of e-TeleQuote, a Florida-based senior health insurance distributor of Medicare-related insurance policies, valued on a pre-debt enterprise basis at $600 million.
• Venerable in its acquisition of Corporate Solutions Life Re from Equitable Holdings and the concurrent reinsurance of approximately $26 billion of variable annuity-related reserves from Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company.
• Aflac in its acquisition of Zurich North America’s U.S. group benefits business.
• Cigna in the $6.3 billion sale of its group life and disability insurance business to New York Life.
• Altamont Capital Partners in its proposed acquisition of Topa Insurance Group, a specialty P&C insurance carrier and producer.
• American International Group in the sale of a 19.9% interest in Fortitude Group Holdings, the Bermuda-based reinsurer of AIG’s legacy insurance portfolio, to The Carlyle Group.
• American International Group in the multi-billion dollar sale of its legacy life settlements portfolio to leading alternative investment management firms.
• Apollo Global Management and Athene Holding in the acquisition from Voya Financial of Voya Insurance and Annuity Company, including Voya’s closed block variable annuity business, for approximately $500 million, and Athene’s agreement to reinsure $19 billion of Voya’s fixed and fixed indexed annuity liabilities.
• Athene in the establishment of its funding agreement-backed note program.
• Gallagher in its acquisition Coverdell & Co. and Carefree Marketing.
• Genworth in the sale of its lifestyle protection insurance business to AXA for €465 million.
• GoldenTree Asset Management LP in its $429 million acquisition of Syncora Guarantee Inc., the financial guarantee insurance subsidiary of Syncora Holdings Ltd.
• GSO Capital Partners, the credit division of the Blackstone Group, in its purchase of $200 million of subordinated notes and warrants of NewStar Financial.
• GSO Capital Partners in its purchase of NewStar Financial’s $2.4 billion middle-market and credit investment portfolio in connection with First Eagle’s concurrent purchase of NewStar Financial.
• The Hartford in the sale of its life insurance and annuity businesses for $2.05 billion to an investor group that included Global Atlantic, Cornell Capital, TRB Advisors, Pine Brook, and J. Safra Group.
• The Hartford in the sale of its Japanese variable annuity business to ORIX for $1.4 billion.
• Heritage Life Insurance Company in its acquisition of Professional Life & Casualty Company.
• Kuvare Holdings in the acquisition by its subsidiary Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company of Lincoln Benefit Life Company from Resolution.
• Markel in its acquisition of SureTec Financial Corporation, one of the largest privately owned surety companies in the United States.
• Medical Protective Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, in its acquisition of Princeton Insurance Company.
• Reinsurance Group of America in its acquisition of Aurora National Life Assurance Co. from Swiss Re.
• Sirius International Insurance Group in its proposed acquisition of a majority interest in Phoenix Holdings for $700 million from the Delek Group.
• Sirius International Insurance Group in the acquisition of International Medical Group, a leading provider of global medical insurance products.
• Sirius International Insurance Group in its acquisition of ArmadaCorp Capital, a leading provider of supplemental healthcare insurance products.
• Synchrony Financial in its acquisition of Pets Best, a pet health insurance industry pioneer.

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