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Dodie C. Kent

Partner
Partner-in-Charge, New York
Gittings Global - NE111374

Dodie has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Dodie advises insurance companies and industry participants on product design, implementation and administrative issues as to variable, index-linked and fixed life insurance, and annuity products.

Dodie also has particular experience advising on novel and complex insurer initiatives, including de-risking of legacy product offerings, as well as product-related regulatory compliance and enforcement matters.

Dodie has vast experience in the design and regulation of registered index-linked insurance contracts -- an insurance space that is seeing exponential growth. She is also a leading industry proponent of simplified, modernized variable product disclosure, including summary product prospectuses.

Dodie's in-depth knowledge of these topics—particularly registered life and annuity insurance regulations and issues—makes her a sought-after speaker at industry conferences. Her years of experience as in-house counsel provides her with a unique and practical understanding of insurance companies’ internal processes and competing business inputs and goals.

Dodie joined Eversheds Sutherland (US) from one of the world’s leading insurance groups, where she was Vice President, Lead Director and Associate General Counsel in its US-based insurance practice group. There, she served as the principal legal securities advisor with respect to its life and annuity product lines.

She currently serves as the Partner-in-Charge of the Eversheds Sutherland New York office.

  • Represented Nassau Financial Group in an agreement to acquire Foresters Life Insurance and Annuity Company.

Asset Management Regulatory Update Series 

October 22, 2020

 

The SEC’s New VA and VLI Summary Prospectus Proposal and Recent Variable Product Disclosure Developments 

November 2018

ALI-CLE Conference on Life Insurance Company Products

 

Innovation in Fixed, Indexed, and Registered Index-Linked Annuities 

May 2018

IRI ACTION Regulation & Technology Conference

 

35th Annual ALI-CLE Conference on Life Insurance Company Products 

November 2017

 

Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of insurance: non-contentious(2016)

Frequent Faculty Member, ALI-CLE Conference on Life Insurance Company Products
Member, Association of Life Insurance Counsel (ALIC)
Member, Insured Retirement Institute (IRI)
Member, New York City Bar Association

  • New York
  • J.D., New York Law School
  • B.A., Gettysburg College
Gittings Global - NE111374
Dodie Kent

Partner

Partner-in-Charge, New York

Gittings Global - NE111374
Dodie Kent

Partner

Partner-in-Charge, New York

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