Michael K. Renetzky

Michael has considerable experience counseling clients on investment adviser, trust company, investment company, and broker-dealer regulation, securities law compliance, and debt and equity financing matters.

Michael frequently counsels boards of directors and assists clients with governance matters. He also represents buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Counseling and Compliance

• Organized registered investment companies, hedge funds, and other funds exempt from the registration requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
• Registered federally covered and state-covered investment advisers.
• Counseled on regulatory and compliance concerns affecting investment funds, federally covered investment advisers, and state-registered investment advisers.
• Developed compliance programs and conducted compliance audits for investment advisers and broker-dealers.
• Advised boards of directors regarding fiduciary obligations and governance matters.

Transactions

• Represented COUNTRY Life Insurance Company in connection with the reinsurance of approximately $1.5 billion of fixed deferred annuity contract liabilities ceded to Lincoln Benefit Life.
• Represented Guardian Insurance and Annuity Company in connection with the sale of its 401(k) business to Ameritas.
• Advised Humana in its acquisition through merger of Concentra, Inc., a health care provider, for $790 million.
• Represented Hartford Life Insurance Company in its acquisition of the group benefits division of CNA Financial Corporation for $500 million.
• Advised Federal Life Insurance Company in connection with its Form N-4 and Federal Life Trust in connection with its N-1A related to the launch of an individual variable deferred annuity backed by its new proprietary mutual fund complex.

• Crain’s Chicago Business, Notable Gen X Leader in Law (2019, 2021-2022)
• Chicago Bible Society: The Gutenberg Award (2015)