Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Kelso & Company and its portfolio company, Accession Risk Management Group, in Accession’s $9.8 billion sale to Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO). For more information, please see the company’s press release.

Accession is the parent brand to a family of specialty insurance and risk management companies.

The Debevoise team is led by M&A partners Emily Huang and Kevin Rinker and includes counsel John Love and Jillian Wright, associates Ronan Campbell, Nicole Gany, Xiuna Lin, Joseph Millard, Katie Power and Matthew Ryan and law clerk Amanda Blazek, insurance M&A partner Nicholas Potter, counsel Robert Fettman and associate Laura Jackson, finance partner Scott Selinger and associate Vlad Krasner, employee benefits and executive compensation partner J. Michael Snypes and associate Christopher Johnson, capital markets partner Steven Slutzky, investment management partner Sheena Paul, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz, associate Melody Godbolt and law clerk Alice Zheng, tax partner Michael Bolotin and associate Miriam Yeger, banking counsel Robert Dura, antitrust partner Michael Schaper and associate Adam Saunders, counsel Sergej Bräuer and Kyra Bromley and associate Lina Hamidou, and national security partner Rick Sofield and associate John Satira.