Deloitte & Touche LLP offers auditing, accounting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services. The firm provides international financial reporting, assurance and advisory, tax auditing, corporate governance, risk consulting, and management and board advisory services. Additionally, it provides merger and acquisition, government compliance, financial advisory, and human capital consulting services. Deloitte & Touche caters to aviation, defense, automotive, finance, banking, consumer products, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, media, oil and gas, power, real estate, retail, technology, telecommunication, hospitality, and government sectors. The firm was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Deloitte & Touche LLP is a member firm of Deloitte LLP.

Faegre Drinker’s Life Insurance and Annuities Practice represents major life insurance groups in significant litigation and corporate matters. We are on the forefront of today’s life insurance issues. For example, we assist clients in resolving complex legal issues relating to the secondary market for high face value life insurance policies, including stranger-originated life insurance (STOLI) transactions and stranger-originated annuity transactions (STAT). In addition to life insurers, we also represent broker general agents, broker dealers, escrow agents and premium financing companies. As well, our national annuities practice has handled hundreds of litigation matters, ranging from suitability class actions to structured settlement transfer petitions. Our practice also includes regulatory and claims issues for long term care insurers, privacy and compliance issues under GLBA and HIPAA, 419(a) and 412(i) tax shelter issues, and class action litigation related to all of the above-described products and issues.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is one of the leading worldwide providers of comprehensive compliance, risk management and audit solutions for the financial services industry. We are a comprehensive risk management business singularly focused on helping financial services organizations mitigate compliance, operational and financial risk across their business, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ solutions empower professionals to make intelligent and clear-sighted decisions in a rapidly changing environment.

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services empowers compliance, risk management, finance and audit professionals in financial services industries across the globe to make intelligent and clear-sighted decisions in a rapidly changing environment. We provide the solutions they need to manage risk across the business while staying in front of new regulatory requirements improve efficiencies and grow their business.

Locke Lord is a full-service, international law firm with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Our team of approximately 650 attorneys has earned a solid national reputation in complex litigation, regulatory and transactional work. We serve our clients’ interests first, and these clients range from Fortune 500 and middle market public and private companies to start-ups and emerging businesses.

Locke Lord’s team builds collaborative relationships and crafts creative solutions to solve problems—all designed and executed with long-term strategic goals in mind. Among Locke Lord’s many strong practice areas are appellate, aviation, bankruptcy/restructuring/insolvency, business litigation and dispute resolution, class action litigation, corporate, employee benefits, energy, environmental, financial services, health care, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, international, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, public law, real estate, regulatory, REIT, tax, technology, and white collar criminal defense and internal investigations.