Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Everest Group (NYSE: EG) in the sale of its Canadian retail insurance operations (Everest Insurance Company of Canada, or “EvCan”) to The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company. For more information, please see the company’s press release.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partner David Grosgold and counsel Megan Arrogante includes associates Saraya Ivanova and Mackenzie Mendolla and law clerks Athena Eleftheriades and Jakob Wessel, employee benefits and executive compensation partner J. Michael Snypes, counsel Sarah Burke and Kathleen Emberger and associates Avery Bashe and Stephen Mattes, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz, associates Amanda Blazek and Katelyn Bryant and law clerk Alice Zhang, and tax partner Daniel Priest, associate Sabrina Hsieh and law clerk Lily Mohr.