Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik, a member of Sutherland’s Financial Services Practice Group, has extensive experience working with federal and state regulators and advising insurance companies, their parent and affiliates on the development, disclosure and administration of insurance products, including variable, indexed and fixed annuity and life products, and cross-border offerings. She has worked closely with numerous financial services organizations in developing and implementing risk-based compliance programs and advising chief compliance officers and senior management on regulatory and corporate governance issues, including unclaimed property issues.

Mary Jane’s extensive experience in insurance regulation and corporate governance is currently helping her insurance clients understand the fast-changing regulatory environment, and evaluate and refine compliance procedures to improve positioning with regulators, including unclaimed property administrators and insurance regulators. She also advises on all aspects of single state and multi-state market conduct exams.

A frequent speaker, Mary Jane has recently spoken at webinars and conferences on state market conduct exam developments involving unclaimed insurance benefits; on financial services regulatory reforms, including the Federal Insurance Office, Solvency II, amendments to the NAIC Model Holding Company Act and ORSA; and on the SEC’s proposed rule on “missing” security holders. She has performed legal risk audits of insurance company operations for compliance with federal securities and state laws and regulations.