Vincent S. Onorato

Recent transactions on which Vince has advised include:

• The sellers in the sale of International Transportation and Marine Office, LLC, a U.S. managing general agency focused on offering its clients marine, trucking and other specialty lines of insurance coverage, including through Lloyd’s of London syndicates, to Tokyo-based Mitsui Sumitomo and its UK-based subsidiary MS Amlin.
• An investor consortium led by Cornell Capital LLC, Atlas Merchant Capital LLC, TRB Advisors LP, Global Atlantic Financial Group, Pine Brook, J. Safra Group, and The Hartford in the sale of Talcott Resolution to Sixth Street (pending).
• MetLife in its acquisition of Versant Health from an investor group led by Centerbridge Partners for approximately $1.7 billion.
• Athene Life Re in the reinsurance of a $27 billion block of annuities from Jackson National Life Insurance Company and a $500 million indirect equity investment in Jackson.
• LSG Insurance Partners, Inc., a Michigan based employee benefits and property-casualty insurance broker, in its sale to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
• Swiss Re Life & Health America in the reinsurance of individual life insurance business from Security Life of Denver in connection with the Irish scheme of arrangement and related Chapter 15 restructuring of Ballantyne Re.
• GoldenTree Asset Management LP in connection with the acquisition of Syncora Guarantee Inc. for $429 million by Star Insurance Holdings, an entity formed by GoldenTree.
• The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. in the sale of its Talcott Resolution life insurance and annuity businesses for $2.05 billion to an investor group that included Global Atlantic Financial Group, Cornell Capital, TRB Advisors, Pine Brook Partners and J. Safra Group.
• The sellers in the sale of Jefferson National Financial Corp. to Nationwide Life Insurance Company.
• The underwriters in connection with securities offerings by American Financial Group, Inc., Mercury General Corporation, Protective Life Corporation and W. R. Berkley Corporation.
• An insurance holding company, as issuer, in its $250 million private placement.
• Brighthouse Life Insurance Company in the establishment of its $5 billion funding agreement-backed note program.
• Forethought Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Global Atlantic Financial Group, in the establishment of its $10 billion funding agreement-backed note program.
• Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company in its $3 billion funding agreement-backed note program.
• The underwriters in connection with Protective Life Insurance Company’s $5 billion funding agreement-backed note program.

Vince is involved in the firm’s Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program, which provides free legal support to eligible small and medium-sized for-profit enterprises and market-focused NGOs and non-profits that have a clear social impact in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean.