Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Equitable, a financial services organization and principal franchise of Equitable Holdings, Inc., in the sale of its employee benefits business to The Hartford (NYSE: HIG), a provider of property and casualty insurance and employee benefits. For more information, see the press release.

The Debevoise team is led by insurance M&A partner Marilyn Lion and counsel Brita Siepker and includes partner Kristen Matthews and associates Clay Cosby, Henry Dean, Ellie Hemmings and Claire Huang, executive compensation & benefits partner Frank Mitchell and associate Louis Akra, tax partner Peter Schuur and associates Sabrina Hsieh and Travis Long, IP and technology transactions partner Henry Lebowitz and associates Katelyn Bryant and Dylan Sanders, antitrust partner Rebekah Scherr and associate Sabine Violetta Kobienia and data strategy and security counsel Johanna Skrzypczyk.