Sidley is advising publicly traded Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) in the sale of its group life and disability insurance business to New York Life, the largest mutual life insurer in the U.S., for US$6.3 billion.
The deal received extensive press coverage, including in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes, among others, and illustrates Sidley's ability to help clients navigate their largest, most complex transactions.
The Sidley deal team, drawn from the firm’s Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Palo Alto offices, is led by Sean Keyvan, and includes Jeremy Watson, Chad Vance, Scott Goldstein, Jeremy Carroll, Marisa Young, John White, Zeshawn Qadir (insurance), Stephanie Dobecki, Andrew Holland (insurance regulatory), Tracy Williams, Peter Edgerton, Tyler Replogle (insurance tax), Matt Johnson, Christian Pilhofer (employee benefits), James Weiss (labor and employment), Stephen Fronk, Dan Ray (intellectual property), Clay Northouse (data security and privacy), Liz McCloy, Max Looper and Matt Abu-Taleb (real estate).
