Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Resolution Life in its $9.7 billion strategic reinsurance agreement with Protective, a U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings (TSE:8750). For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Resolution Life is a global life insurance group focusing on reinsurance and the acquisition and management of portfolios of life insurance policies.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partners Kristen Matthews and Marilyn Lion and includes associates Thomas DeMarzo, John Ellis and Nicholas Vota and law clerk Ayanna Najja Thompson, and tax partner Daniel Priest and associates Sabrina Hsieh and Renqiu Chen.