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About the Role

Serve as VP-level regulatory counsel for complex transactions, including reinsurance, M&A, capital management, and structured finance. Develop and execute regulatory approval strategies, prepare filings, and explain complex structures to insurance supervisors.

Responsibilities

Serve as regulatory counsel on complex reinsurance, M&A, capital management, structured finance and other strategic transactions.
Analyze structures and deal documents for regulatory implications, identify required approvals, notifications and ongoing compliance requirements, and build them into transaction design and timetables.
Develop and execute the regulatory strategy for each transaction, anticipating supervisory concerns, planning regulator engagement, and advising on alternatives.
Explain complex transactions to regulators, preparing applications, filings, notifications, presentations and responses.
Lead or support discussions with insurance regulators and prepare management for regulatory meetings and examinations.
Work with deal teams, finance, tax, actuarial, risk and outside advisers to reflect regulatory requirements in deal terms and documentation.
Coordinate regulatory approvals with the related corporate and board approvals.
Coordinate regulatory matters across regions with regional legal teams, Compliance and Government Relations.
Track the regulatory pipeline, conditions and commitments, and oversee satisfaction of regulatory conditions after closing.
Manage outside counsel and other resources.
Support the SVP, Reinsurance & Regulatory Counsel on other complex matters as needed.

Requirements

Law degree from an accredited law school.
Bachelor’s Degree from accredited university or college.
Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. State or relevant legal jurisdiction.
12+ years’ experience as a practicing attorney in a law firm or corporate legal function, with substantial experience leading M&A, reinsurance, financing, capital markets, structured finance or other complex transactions.
Experience obtaining regulatory approvals for complex transactions involving regulated financial institutions or insurance companies, including U.S. insurance holding company regulation and/or Bermuda, UK or EU insurance regulatory regimes.
Experience with life and health insurance and reinsurance products and insurance-related structured finance or third-party capital transactions.
Experience in a global business enterprise with operations on various continents with different legal systems and cultures.
Experience managing other attorneys, either individually or as a team, in a law firm or corporate legal function.
15+ years’ experience as an attorney in a law firm or in a corporate legal function.

Skills

Proven ability to analyze complex transaction structures, identify legal, execution and regulatory risks, and lead negotiations through signing and closing.
Ability to explain complex transaction structures and their financial and risk impacts clearly and credibly to regulators, directors and business leaders, orally and in writing.
Expert drafting, review and negotiation skills, including clear, well-organized board- and regulator-facing materials.
Ability to identify and interpret business, contractual, execution and regulatory issues and translate them into practical transaction and approval strategies.
Build trusted relationships with regulators, directors and senior management, and communicate sensitive matters clearly and candidly.
Provide legal advice at the level of an experienced law partner, with strong client service and interpersonal skills.
Manage, or quickly develop the skills to manage, attorneys and other legal professionals.
Highly organized, results-oriented and attentive to detail; set priorities and meet transaction, filing and regulatory deadlines across multiple time zones.
Flexible, proactive and accountable; collaborate constructively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
Maintain strict confidentiality.
Continuously develop skills in evolving technologies and practices.
Insurance regulatory experience is desirable but not required; candidates with strong deal experience must be able and willing to develop insurance regulatory expertise quickly.

Location

Chesterfield
NY

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

12+ years
15+ years

Education Level

Law degree
Bachelor’s Degree

Salary/Compensations

$180,220.00 - $268,400.00 Annual

Benefits

Annual bonus plan
Long-term equity incentive plan eligibility for some positions
Full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits

About the Company

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration.
A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies.
The only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions.
Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Equal Opportunity

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.