Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company in the sale by The Standard of its individual annuities business to Pacific Guardian Life. The Standard and Pacific Guardian Life are both wholly-owned subsidiaries of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company. For more information, see the press release.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partner Kristen Matthews and counsel Brita Siepker and includes associates Clay Cosby and Lyla Sax, executive compensation & benefits partner Frank Mitchell and associate Rebeka Danielle Cohan, tax partner Daniel Priest and associate John Nelson, investment management associate Alexis Oh, and IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz and associate Kate O’Neill.