Paulina Stanfel is a corporate partner based in the New York office and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. Her practice focuses ...
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Experience
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- Goldman Sachs in its strategic partnership with Talcott Financial Group, an international life insurance group, to launch West Grove Re, Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled reinsurance sidecar.
- Unum Group in its $3.8 billion long-term care reinsurance transaction with Fortitude Re.
- American International Group in its strategic partnership with CVC, a global private markets manager, including the establishment of separately managed accounts and the launch of CVC’s private equity secondaries evergreen platform.
- TPG in its long-term strategic investment management partnership with Jackson Financial, in which TPG will manage a minimum commitment of $12 billion of AUM for Jackson, and make a $500 million minority investment in Jackson.
- American International Group in its strategic investment of approximately $2.1 billion in Convex Group Limited, a global specialty insurer, and approximately $646 million in Onex Corporation, a global asset manager.
- Unum Group in the $3.4 billion reinsurance agreement of its Unum Life Insurance Company of America subsidiary with Fortitude Reinsurance Company.
- Ascot Group in the sale of its specialty transactional liability MGU business to Bishop Street Underwriters.
- Talcott Financial Group in its inaugural flow reinsurance transaction between its subsidiary, Talcott Life Re, Ltd. and The Dai-ichi Frontier Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
- Voya Financial as an investor in Sconset Reinsurance Company, an independent reinsurance company that reinsures certain Allianz assets.
- Corebridge Financial in AIG’s $3.4 billion sale of Corebridge common stock to Nippon Life Insurance Company.
- James River Group Holdings in its sale of its casualty reinsurance business, JRG Reinsurance Company, to Fleming Intermediate Holdings.
- Ascot Group in the sale of its specialty insurance property and casualty MGU business to Ryan Specialty.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial in AIG’s secondary public offering of 74.75 million shares of Corebridge Financial common stock at $16.25 per share.
- American International Group in its sale of Validus Re to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial, a majority-owned subsidiary of American International Group, in the initial public offering of Corebridge Financial.
- Resolution Life, a global life insurance group focusing on the acquisition and management of portfolios of life insurance policies, in the reinsurance of $35 billion in fixed indexed annuities from Allianz Life.
- Manulife, a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider, in its reinsurance deal with Venerable, a provider of risk transfer solutions to variable annuity issuers, releasing approximately $2 billion in capital.
- Prudential Financial in the sale of its retirement plan business to Empower for a total transaction value of $3.55 billion.
- American International Group in its strategic partnership with Blackstone Group for its Life & Retirement business.
- New York Life in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Cigna’s Group Life and Disability Insurance business.
- Assurant in the $1.3 billion sale of its Global Preneed business to CUNA Mutual Group.
- Nassau Financial Group in the issuance of $100 million of non-cumulative perpetual preferred equity to Wilton Re and Stone Point Credit.
- The Independent Order of Foresters in its sale of Foresters Life Insurance and Annuity Company and Foresters Financial Holding Company, Inc. to Nassau Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nassau Financial Group, L.P.
- Alaska National Insurance Company in its acquisition by Copperpoint Insurance Companies.
- Japan Post Holdings in its purchase of a strategic stake of approximately 7% of outstanding common shares of Aflac.
- AXA and AXA Equitable Holdings on the initial public offering of AXA Equitable Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange for approximately $4 billion, and AXA Equitable Holdings in its offering and sale of $3.8 billion of senior notes.
- Syncora Holdings, as insurer of power revenue bonds issued by PREPA, Puerto Rico’s troubled electric utility, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in the ongoing highly publicized and complex restructuring negotiations relating to PREPA’s and the Commonwealth’s extensive funded debt and their PROMESA Title III proceedings.
Education
- Duke University School of Law, 2015, J.D.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012, B.S.