Atiana Johnson advises businesses across sectors on data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, and she counsels clients on regulatory compliance and transactional matters as well.
Atiana has extensive experience advising the world’s largest companies on global data privacy incidents and on compliance with global cybersecurity requirements. She is adept at providing risk-based, pragmatic advice to clients, particularly to the technology and financial services sectors. In addition, Atiana counsels clients on compliance with rapidly evolving global and national artificial intelligence regulations.
Atiana also advises clients on company formation, licensing of insurers and insurance intermediaries, market conduct, compliance with state insurance laws governing non-admitted insurance, re-domestications, the Holding Company Act, reinsurance and investment law compliance. She also helps execute insurance company mergers and acquisitions and reviews artificial intelligence regulatory developments.
Before joining Eversheds Sutherland, Atiana participated in the firm's Summer Associate Program and worked as a law clerk for the firm. During law school, she served as staff editor for the Howard Law Journal and worked as a legal intern for a major US bank. She previously worked as a lobbyist and legislative analyst for the City of Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
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- Represented Securian Financial Group, Inc. in the auctioned sale of its retirement plan recordkeeping business to Standard Insurance Company.
- Represented IGM Financial, one of Canada's largest diversified wealth and asset management companies, in its purchase of an approximately 20.5 percent equity interest in Rockefeller Capital Management, for consideration of approximately $622 million.
- Represented Talcott Resolution in its reinsurance of a $7 billion variable annuity block from Guardian Life with transfer of administration and in its flow reinsurance of Lincoln National's variable annuity business.
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- B.A., Georgetown University
- J.D., Howard University School of Law,
Staff Editor, Howard Law Journal