Ling Ling represents strategic and private equity-owned insurers and other financial services companies in their transformative transactions in the insurance space and in insurance capital management and regulatory compliance matters.
Ling plans and negotiates significant insurance company mergers, acquisitions and complex reinsurance transactions.
She is ranked by Chambers and has served four years on Eversheds Sutherland (US)’s Executive Committee and is the Deputy Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Insurance Transactions and Products Group.
Ling represents large US and global insurers and private equity funds in their acquisitions, dispositions and investments with a focus on the life and annuity industry. With an extensive background and deep understanding in insurance, reinsurance, reserve financing and pension risk transfer matters, Ling routinely represents insurers in their large transactions involving complex or unique collateral arrangements or structures, assists insurers in managing their long-term credit exposure such as using assumption reinsurance, division or insurance business transfer statutes, and advises on asset management issues involving various structured classes of assets, fee structures and hedges in a reinsurance context or otherwise.
She is also well versed in working with private equity funds in their investments in insurers or insurance assets, including regulatory requirements affecting the PE owners, their equity and debt financing needs, and formation of offshore platforms and joint ventures with third-party capital,
In insurance regulatory matters, Ling advises on division and insurance business transfer laws, risk transfer, reinsurance credit and certified reinsurer and reciprocal jurisdiction matters, insurance holding company act issues, affiliate transaction filings, insurer capital requirements, change of control, redomestication and captive regulations.
- Represented Talcott Life in its reinsurance of a $7 billion variable annuity block from Guardian Life.
- Represented Horace Mann in its acquisition of Madison National Life Insurance Company.
- Represented Empower in its acquisition of MassMutual’s retirement services business for a total transaction value of $3.35 billion.
- Represented Coventry Capital US LLC in its acquisition of North American Insurance Company through two family trusts.
- Represented Santander (UK) Group Pension Scheme Trustees Limited and Santander UK plc in the pension liability transfer of their five pension sections through an intermediated reinsurance transaction involving Zurich Assurance and Prudential Financial.
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of insurance: non-contentious (2015, 2018, 2020-2023)
- Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of insurance: transactional and regulatory (2021-2023)
- Member, Business Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Association of Life Insurance Counsel (ALIC)
- Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- District of Columbia
- New York
- J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law,
Member, North Carolina Law Review, Order of the Coif
- B.A., Shanghai International Studies University