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Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

22,277,993 Shares

VOYA FINANCIAL, INC.

COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $0.01 PER SHARE

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

September 2, 2014

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

As managers of the offering (the “Managers”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

ING Groep N.V. (the “Selling Stockholder”) proposes to sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), an aggregate of 22,277,993 shares of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), of Voya Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company are hereinafter referred to as the “Common Stock.”

The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement, including a prospectus, on Form S-3, relating to securities of the Company (the “Shelf Securities”), including the Shares to be sold from time to time by the Selling Shareholder. The registration statement as amended at the date of this Agreement, including the information (if any) deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A or Rule 430B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), is hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement,” and the related prospectus covering the Shelf Securities dated June 18, 2014 in the form first used to confirm sales of the Shares (or in the form first made available to the Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) is hereinafter referred to as the “Basic Prospectus.” The Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the prospectus supplement dated September 2, 2014 specifically relating to the Shares in the form first used to confirm sales of the Shares (or in the form first made available to the Underwriters by the Company to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) is hereinafter referred to as the “Prospectus”; the term “preliminary prospectus” means any preliminary form of the Prospectus.

For purposes of this Agreement, “free writing prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, and “Time of Sale Prospectus” means the Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the preliminary prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Shares dated September 2, 2014, together with the documents and pricing information set forth in Schedule II(A) hereto. As used herein, the terms “Registration

Statement,” “Basic Prospectus,” “preliminary prospectus,” “Time of Sale Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein as of the date hereof. The terms “supplement,” “amendment,” and “amend” as used herein with respect to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.

1. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that:

(a) The Registration Statement has become effective; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission. The Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) eligible to use the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement and the Company has not received notice that the Commission objects to the use of the Registration Statement as an automatic shelf registration statement.

(b) (i) Each document filed or to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus complied or will comply when so filed in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, (ii) each part of the Registration Statement, when such part became effective, did not contain and, each such part, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, when such amendment or supplement becomes effective, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (iii) the Registration Statement as of the date hereof does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (iv) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, (v) the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vi) the Prospectus does not contain as of the date of the prospectus supplement forming a part thereof and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, as of the date of such amendment or supplement, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the representations and warranties set

forth in this paragraph do not apply to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.

(c) The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. Any free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Each free writing prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used or referred to by the Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule II hereto, each furnished to you before first use, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without your prior consent, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus.

(d) The Company and each of its significant subsidiaries (as defined below) have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing (to the extent that such concept is applicable) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing (to the extent that such concept is applicable) in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified, in good standing or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial position, shareholder’s equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement (a “Material Adverse Effect”). For purposes of this Agreement, “significant subsidiary” means the subsidiaries listed in Schedule III to this Agreement.

(e) Each subsidiary that is required to be organized and licensed as an insurance company (each, an “Insurance Subsidiary,” and collectively the “Insurance Subsidiaries”) is duly organized and licensed as an insurance company in the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized and is duly licensed or authorized as an insurer in each other jurisdiction where it is required to be so licensed or authorized to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, except in each case where the failure to be so organized, licensed or authorized would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and each Insurance Subsidiary has made all required filings under applicable insurance company statutes and has filed all notices, reports, documents or other information required to be filed

thereunder, except in each case where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and each Insurance Subsidiary has all other necessary authorizations, approvals, orders, consents, licenses, certificates, permits, registrations and qualifications, of and from all insurance regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective existing businesses as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, except where the failure to have such authorizations, approvals, orders, consents, licenses, certificates, permits, registrations or qualifications (individually or in the aggregate) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus; none of the Company or any Insurance Subsidiary has received any notification from any insurance regulatory authority to the effect that any additional authorization, approval, order, consent, license, certificate, permit, registration or qualification from any insurance regulatory authority is needed to be obtained by any of the Company or any Insurance Subsidiary other than in any case where the failure to acquire such additional authorization, approval, order, consent, license, certificate, permit, registration or qualification (individually or in the aggregate) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; except as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, no subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any law, rule, regulation, agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company as would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, no insurance regulatory authority having jurisdiction over any Insurance Subsidiary has issued any order or decree impairing, restricting or prohibiting (A) the payment of dividends by any Insurance Subsidiary to its parent or the payment of dividends by such parent to the Company (directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate holding companies directly or indirectly wholly owned by the Company), or (B) the continuation of the business of the Company or any of the Insurance Subsidiaries in all material respects as presently conducted.

(f) All the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (except, in the case of any foreign subsidiary, for directors’ qualifying shares) and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any material lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.

(g) The Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby has been duly and validly taken.

(h) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(i) The authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof contained in each of the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(j) The shares of Common Stock (including the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder) have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any preemptive or similar rights.

(k) This Agreement conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(l) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any property, right or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority (including the insurance laws and regulations of the states of incorporation of the Company’s Insurance Subsidiaries and the insurance laws and regulations of other applicable jurisdictions), except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(m) The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement in accordance with its terms, the sale of the Shares and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property, right or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any property or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its significant

subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation, default, lien, charge or encumbrance that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect and would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in any liability for any Underwriter.

(n) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement in accordance with its terms, the sale of the Shares and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as have been obtained or may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) and under applicable state securities laws and foreign securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters.

(o) The financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby; and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby.

(p) Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any material change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, assets, financial position, shareholder’s equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with its business from

fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(q) Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, demands, claims, suits, arbitrations, inquiries or proceedings (“Actions”) pending, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any property or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; no such Actions are threatened or, to the best knowledge of the Company, contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or by others; and there are no current or pending Actions that are required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(r) Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and as required by the Securities Act.

(s) Each preliminary prospectus supplement filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act complied when so filed in all material respects, and the Time of Sale Prospectus complies in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

(t) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Investment Company Act”).

(u) The Company and its subsidiaries are not subject to any claim in connection with their respective businesses, operations or properties, alleging liability or responsibility for violation of any Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, regulation, ordinance, rule, judgment, order, decree, permit, concession, grant, franchise, license, agreement or governmental restriction relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems, except for claims which, if adversely determined, would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(v) (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) would have any liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of ERISA and the Code; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, no such Plan has failed (whether or not waived), or is reasonably expected to fail, to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code) applicable to such Plan; (iv) no such Plan is, or is reasonably expected to be, in “at risk status” (within the meaning of Section 303(i) of ERISA) or “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) with regard to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code and a Plan’s ability to pay benefits thereunder when due has occurred; (vi) each Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and the Company shall undertake to maintain such qualification of each Plan and (vii) neither the Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any material liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the PBGC, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan, except in each case with respect to the events or conditions set forth in (i) through (vii) hereof, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(w) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates under the control of the Company (“controlled affiliates”), nor any director, officer, or employee, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent or representative of the Company or of any of its subsidiaries or controlled affiliates, has made any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment or giving of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any “government official” (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office) to influence official action or secure an improper advantage; and the Company and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and have instituted and maintain and will continue to maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and with the representation and warranty contained herein.

(x) The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company and its subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(y) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, or employee thereof, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent, controlled affiliate or representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is, or is owned or controlled by a Person that is:

(A) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) , the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union (“EU”), Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor

(B) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Burma/Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

(ii) For the past 5 years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.

(z) The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa) (i) The Company and its subsidiaries own or have the right to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, domain names and other source indicators, copyrights and copyrightable works, know-how, trade secrets, systems, procedures, proprietary or confidential information and all other worldwide intellectual property, industrial property and proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in the conduct of their respective businesses; (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries’ conduct of their respective businesses does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property right of any person; (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries are not aware of any pending or threatened material claim relating to infringement of a third party’s Intellectual Property rights; and (iv) to the knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property of the Company and its subsidiaries is not being infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person.

(bb) No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the best knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of any of the Company’s or any of the Company’s subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of cancellation or termination with respect to any collective bargaining agreement to which it is a party.

(cc) Except with respect to insurance policies and contracts issued by any Insurance Subsidiary or reinsurance policies with respect to the same, the Company and each of its subsidiaries self-insure or are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the Company or any of its subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, officers and directors are, to the knowledge of the Company, in full force and effect; the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; and there are no claims by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause; neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any such consolidated subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

(dd) The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, sub-licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made

all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, sub-license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course.

(ee) The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including, but not limited to internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls.

(ff) Except as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Company has not sold, issued or distributed any shares of Common Stock during the six-month period preceding the date hereof, including any sales pursuant to Rule 144A under, or Regulation D or S of, the Securities Act, other than shares issued pursuant to employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or other employee compensation plans or pursuant to outstanding options, rights or warrants.

(gg) The Company and its subsidiaries have paid or accrued all federal, state, local and foreign taxes and filed all tax returns required to be paid or filed through the date hereof; and except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there is no tax deficiency that has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets, except, in each case, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(hh) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares.

(ii) Except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with the Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement.

(jj) The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Shares, except for the share repurchase transaction described in the Time of Sale Prospectus and any open market share repurchase made after the date hereof following the termination of the applicable “Restricted period” (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act (“Regulation M”)) in compliance with Regulation M. For the avoidance of doubt, participation in compliance with Regulation M by the Company in the Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 shall not negatively affect the accuracy of this Section 1(jj).

(kk) No material forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

(ll) Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.

(mm) The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

2. Representations and Warranties of the Selling Stockholder. The Selling Stockholder represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that:

(a) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Selling Stockholder.

(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Selling Stockholder of this Agreement will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Selling Stockholder is a party or by which the Selling Stockholder is bound, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Selling Stockholder or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation or default that would not materially and adversely affect the sale of the Shares and the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated.

(c) No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Selling Stockholder of this Agreement, except such as may be required for the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as have been obtained or may be required by FINRA and under applicable state securities laws and foreign securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters.

(d) The Selling Stockholder has, and on the Closing Date will have, valid title to, or a valid “security entitlement” within the meaning of Section 8-501 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code in respect of, the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder free and clear of all security interests, claims, liens, equities or other encumbrances and the legal right and power, and all authorization and approval required by law, to enter into this Agreement and to sell, transfer and deliver the Shares to be sold by the Selling Stockholder or a security entitlement in respect of such Shares.

(e) Upon payment for the Shares to be sold by such Selling Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement, delivery of such Shares, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such other nominee as may be designated by the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), registration of such Shares in the name of Cede or such other nominee and the crediting of such Shares on the books of DTC to securities accounts of the Underwriters (assuming that neither DTC nor any such Underwriter has notice of any adverse claim (within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (the “UCC”)) to such Shares), (A) DTC shall be a “protected purchaser” of such Shares within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the UCC, (B) under Section 8-501 of the UCC, the Underwriters will acquire a valid security entitlement in respect of such Shares and (C) no action based on any “adverse

claim”, within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC, to such Shares may be asserted against the Underwriters with respect to such security entitlement; for purposes of this representation, the Selling Stockholder may assume that when such payment, delivery and crediting occur, (x) such Shares will have been registered in the name of Cede or another nominee designated by DTC, in each case on the Company’s share registry in accordance with its certificate of incorporation, bylaws and applicable law, (y) DTC will be registered as a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of Section 8-102 of the UCC and (z) appropriate entries to the accounts of the several Underwriters on the records of DTC will have been made pursuant to the UCC.

(f) The Selling Stockholder has no reason to believe that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 1 are not true and correct, is familiar with the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and has no knowledge of any material fact, condition or information not disclosed in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus that has had, or may have, a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Selling Stockholder does not possess any material non-public information concerning the Company or its subsidiaries which is not set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus.

(g)(i) Solely to the extent that any statements in, or omissions from, the Registration Statement are made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by the Selling Stockholder expressly for use therein, each part of the Registration Statement, when such part became effective, did not contain and, each such part, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) solely to the extent that any statement in, or omissions from, the Registration Statement are made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by the Selling Stockholder expressly for use therein, the Registration Statement, as of the date hereof, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (iii) solely to the extent that any statements in, or omissions from, the Time of Sale Prospectus are made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by the Selling Stockholder expressly for use therein, the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (iv) solely to the extent that any statements in, or omissions from, the Prospectus are made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company by the Selling Stockholder expressly for use therein, the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if

applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph 2(g) do not apply to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.

3. Agreements to Sell and Purchase. (a) The Selling Stockholder, hereby agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the conditions hereinafter stated, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Selling Stockholder at $38.85 a share (the “Purchase Price”) the number of Shares set forth in Schedule I hereto opposite the name of such Underwriter.

(b) The Company and the Selling Stockholder each hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Managers on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period ending 45 days after the date of the Prospectus, (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act or any other securities so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise or (3) file any registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock.

(c) The restrictions contained in the preceding paragraph shall not apply to (a) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (b) the issuance by the Company of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of any option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on or before the Closing Date of which the Underwriters have been advised in writing or which is described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, (c) transfers by the Selling Stockholder of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock to any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Selling Stockholder; provided that in the case of any transfer pursuant to clause (c), each transferee shall enter into a written agreement accepting the restrictions set forth in the preceding paragraph and this paragraph as if it were a Selling Stockholder, (d) grants made under any equity compensation plan described in the Prospectus and existing on the date of this Agreement, (e) the conversion of employee compensation awards held in the form of securities of the Selling Stockholder (or American Depositary Shares or Receipts representing such securities) into securities of the Company, (f) the

establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of shares of Common Stock, provided that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Common Stock during the 45-day restricted period, (g) the filing with the Commission of one or more registration statements on Form S-8, (h) transfers by the Selling Stockholder of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock in connection with the direct or indirect acquisition of 100% of the Common Stock by a single person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), or the entry by the Company and the Selling Stockholder into an agreement providing for such a transaction, (i) any issuance or transfer of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock as consideration for a merger, acquisition, asset transfer or similar transaction, provided that the aggregate amount represented by the securities that the Company may issue or transfer or agree to issue or transfer pursuant to this clause (i) shall not exceed five percent (5%) of the total number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately following the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and provided further, that the Company shall cause the recipient of such securities to execute and deliver to you, on or prior to the issuance of such securities, a “lock-up” agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and (j) the share repurchase transaction described in the Time of Sale Prospectus. In addition, the Selling Stockholder, agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Managers on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period ending 45 days after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for, or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. The Selling Stockholder consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of any Shares held by the Selling Stockholder except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

4. Terms of Public Offering. Each of the Company and the Selling Stockholder is advised by you that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Shares as soon after the execution of this Agreement as in your judgment is advisable. Each of the Company and the Selling Stockholder is further advised by you that the Shares are to be offered to the public initially at the public offering price identified on Schedule II(A) hereto (the “Public Offering Price”).

5. Payment and Delivery. Payment for the Shares shall be made to the Selling Stockholder in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City against delivery of such Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on September 8, 2014, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than 5 business days after scheduled closing, as we shall mutually agree in writing. The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date.”

The Shares shall be registered in such names and in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than one full business day prior to the Closing Date. The

Shares shall be delivered to you on the Closing Date, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters. The Purchase Price payable by the Underwriters shall be reduced by (i) any transfer taxes paid by, or on behalf of, the Underwriters in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters duly paid and (ii) any withholding required by law.

6. Conditions to Obligations. The several obligations of the Underwriters are subject to the following conditions:

(a) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:

(i) there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change (other than a notice with positive implications of a possible upgrading), in the rating accorded any of the securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act; and

(ii) there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your judgment, impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus.

(b) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Section 6(a)(i) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date.

The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.

(c) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Selling Stockholder, to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Selling Stockholder contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Selling Stockholder has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date.

(d) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex A.

(e) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Bridget Healy, Esq., General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex B.

(f) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex C.

(g) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of (i) Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Selling Stockholder, dated the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Annex D-1 and (ii) Stibbe N.V., outside counsel for the Selling Stockholder to the effect set forth in Annex D-2.

(h) The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date with respect to such matters as you may reasonably request.

The opinions described in Sections 6(d), 6(e), 6(f) and 6(g) above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company or the Selling Stockholder, as the case may be, and shall so state therein.

(i) The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and on the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(j) The Underwriters shall have received executed “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between you and the officers and directors of the Company listed on Schedule IV hereto, and such “lock-up” agreements shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date.

(k) The Underwriters shall have received, on and as of the Closing Date, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and its significant subsidiaries in their respective jurisdictions of organization (to the extent that such concept is applicable) and their good standing in such other jurisdictions as the Underwriters may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication, from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions, provided that the evidence of good standing for those entities except for the Company may be as of any date from the date hereof through and including the Closing Date.

7. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) To furnish to you, without charge, 4 signed copies of the Registration Statement and the documents incorporated by reference therein (in each case, excluding exhibits thereto) and to furnish to you in New York City, without charge, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and during the period mentioned in Section 7(e) or 7(f) below, as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any documents incorporated by reference therein and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may reasonably request.

(b) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus prior to the Closing Date (other than an amendment or supplement as a result of a filing by the Company under the Exchange Act with the Commission), to furnish to you a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object, and to file with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act any prospectus required to be filed pursuant to such Rule, provided that the Company shall give you notice of its intention to make any filing pursuant to the Exchange Act from the execution of this Agreement to the Closing Date and, to the extent practicable, to furnish you with copies of any such documents a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing.

(c) To furnish to you a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to (i) make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a free writing prospectus or (ii) use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus, in each case without your prior consent.

(d) Not to take any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriter that the Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

(e) If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to offer or sell the Shares at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not misleading, or if during such time any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Time of Sale Prospectus conflicts with the information contained in the

Registration Statement then on file, or if it shall become necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus or to file any document under the Exchange Act incorporated by reference therein to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus or such document filed under the Exchange Act so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Time of Sale Prospectus is delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

(f) If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Shares (not to exceed nine months), the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if it shall become necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus or to file any document under the Exchange Act incorporated by reference therein to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses you will furnish to the Company) to which Shares may have been sold by you on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or such document filed under the Exchange Act so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

(g) To endeavor to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under state or foreign securities laws of such jurisdictions as you shall reasonably request, provided that in connection therewith, the Company shall not be required to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.

(h) To make generally available to the Company’s security holders and to you as soon as practicable an earning statement (which need not be audited) satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (including, at the Company’s option, Rule 158).

(i) If the Selling Stockholder is not a U.S. person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company will deliver to each Underwriter (or its agent),

on or before the Closing Date, (i) a certificate confirming that the Company is not, nor has it been within 5 years of the date of the certification, a “United States real property holding corporation,” dated not more than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date, as described in Treasury Regulations Sections 1.897-2(h) and 1.1445-2(c)(3), and (ii) proof of delivery to the IRS of the required notice, as described in Treasury Regulations 1.897-2(h)(2).

(j) If the third anniversary of the initial effectiveness date of the Registration Statement occurs before all the Shares have been sold by the Underwriters, prior to the third anniversary to file a new shelf registration statement and to take any other action necessary to permit the public offering of the Shares to continue without interruption; references herein to the Registration Statement shall include the new registration statement that becomes effective with the Commission.

8. Covenants of the Selling Stockholder. The Selling Stockholder covenants with each Underwriter to deliver to each Underwriter (or its agent), prior to or at the Closing Date, a properly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN.

9. Expenses. Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company and the Selling Stockholder agree to pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel, the Company’s accountants and counsel for the Selling Stockholder in connection with the registration and delivery of the Shares under the Securities Act and all other fees or expenses in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including the filing fees payable to the Commission relating to the Shares (within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1), if applicable), all printing costs associated therewith, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers, in the quantities hereinabove specified, (ii) all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, (iii) the cost of producing, printing and distributing any Blue Sky or World Sky memorandum in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares under state and/or foreign securities laws and all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under state securities laws and/or foreign securities laws as provided in Section 7(g) hereof or the determination of the conditions under which such registration or qualification need not be obtained in order to offer and sell Shares in such jurisdictions, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters (including local counsel in each such foreign jurisdiction) in connection with such qualification or determination and in connection with the Blue Sky and/or World Sky memorandum, (iv) all filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the

Underwriters incurred in connection with any review and qualification of the offering of the Shares by FINRA, (v) all costs and expenses incident to listing the Shares on the New York Stock Exchange, (vi) the cost of printing certificates representing the Shares, (vii) the costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar or depositary, (viii) the document production charges and expenses associated with printing this Agreement and (ix) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and the Selling Stockholder hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section. It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section 9, Section 11 entitled “Indemnity and Contribution” and the last paragraph of Section 13 below, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including fees and disbursements of their counsel, stock transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Shares by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

The provisions of this Section 9 shall not supersede or otherwise affect any agreement that the Company and the Selling Stockholder may otherwise have for the allocation of such expenses among themselves.

10. Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter severally covenants with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.

11. Indemnity and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees and selling agents of each Underwriter, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of each Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of or are based upon any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein.

(b) The Selling Stockholder agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees and selling agents of each Underwriter, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of each Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent (and only to the extent) that such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission was made in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company for use therein; and except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of or are based upon any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use therein. The liability of the Selling Stockholder under the indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph shall be limited to an amount equal to the net proceeds received by the Selling Stockholder from the sale of its Shares under this Agreement.

(c) Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Selling Stockholder, the directors of the Company, the officers of the Company who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Selling Stockholder within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based

upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only with reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through you expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto.

(d) In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 11(a), 11(b) or 11(c), such person (the “indemnified party”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “indemnifying party”) in writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for (i) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Underwriters, directors, officers, employees and selling agents of each Underwriter, and all persons, if any, who control any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act or who are affiliates of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act, (ii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either such Section and (iii) the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Selling Stockholder and all persons, if any, who control the Selling Stockholder within the meaning of either such Section, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. In the case of (i) any such separate firm for the Underwriters, the directors, officers, employees and selling agents of each Underwriter, and such control persons and affiliates of any Underwriters, such firm shall in each case be designated in writing by the Managers. In the case of any such separate firm for the Company, and such directors, officers and control persons of the Company, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Company. In the case of any such separate firm for the Selling Stockholder and such control persons of the Selling Stockholder, such firm shall be designated in

writing by the Selling Stockholder. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(e) To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 11(a), 11(b) or 11(c) is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party or parties on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause 11(e)(i) above is not permitted by applicable law in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause 11(e)(i) above but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and of the indemnified party or parties on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Selling Stockholder on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Shares shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering of the Shares (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Selling Stockholder and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters bear to the aggregate Public Offering Price of the Shares. The relative fault of the Company and the Selling Stockholder on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a

material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Selling Stockholder or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 11 are several in proportion to the respective number of Shares they have purchased hereunder, and not joint. The liability of the Selling Stockholder under the contribution agreement contained in this paragraph shall be limited to an amount equal to the aggregate Public Offering Price of the Shares sold by the Selling Stockholder under this Agreement.

(f) The Company, the Selling Stockholder and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 11 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 11(e). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 11(e) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 11, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The remedies provided for in this Section 11 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 11 and the representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Selling Stockholder contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any director, officer, employee or agent of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter or any affiliate of any Underwriter, the Selling Stockholder or any person controlling the Selling Stockholder, or the Company, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the Shares.

12. Termination. The Underwriters may terminate this Agreement by notice given by you to the Company and the Selling Stockholder, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on, or by, as the case may be, any of the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Global Market, (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any

national securities exchange, (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred, (iv) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by Federal or New York State authorities or (v) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in your judgment, is material and adverse and which, singly or together with any other event specified in this clause (v), makes it, in your judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offer, sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus.

13. Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

If, on the Closing Date, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Shares that it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate number of Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of the Shares to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the number of Shares set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I bears to the aggregate number of Shares set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase the Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the number of Shares that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 13 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Shares without the written consent of such Underwriter. If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Shares and the aggregate number of Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to you, the Company and the Selling Stockholder for the purchase of such Shares are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Selling Stockholder. In any such case either you, the Company or the Selling Stockholder shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company or the Selling Stockholder to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement (which, for purposes of this Section 13 shall not include termination by the Underwriters pursuant to clauses (i), (iii), (iv) or (v) of Section 12), or if for any reason the Company or the Selling Stockholder shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company and the Selling Stockholder will reimburse the Underwriters or such

Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.

14. Entire Agreement. (a) This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Shares, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the Selling Stockholder, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, with respect to the preparation of any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, the conduct of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Shares.

(b) The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Shares: (i) the Underwriters have acted at arm’s length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, (ii) the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and (iii) the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company. The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Shares.

15. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

16. Applicable Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

17. Submission to Jurisdiction; Appointment of Agent for Service. (a) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably (i) agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding against the Selling Stockholder brought by any Underwriter or by any person who controls any Underwriter arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may be instituted in any Federal court located in the State of New York, (ii) waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such proceeding and (iii) submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. The Selling Stockholder irrevocably waives any immunity to jurisdiction to which it may otherwise be entitled or become entitled (including sovereign immunity, immunity to pre-judgment attachment, post-judgment attachment and execution) in any legal suit, action or proceeding against it arising out of or based on this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby which is instituted in any New York court or in any competent court in The Netherlands. The Selling Stockholder has appointed Corporation Service Company, Albany, New York, as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) upon whom process may be served in any such action

arising out of or based on this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby which may be instituted in any New York court by any Underwriter or by any person who controls any Underwriter, expressly consent to the jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such action, and waives any other requirements of or objections to personal jurisdiction with respect thereto. The Selling Stockholder represents and warrants that the Authorized Agent has agreed to act as such agent for service of process and agrees to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents and instruments, that may be necessary to continue such appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid, unless and until a successor has been appointed as the Authorized Agent in the State of New York. The Selling Stockholder will notify the Managers of the appointment of a successor Authorized Agent prior to such appointment taking effect. Service of process upon such Authorized Agent (or any successor) and written notice of such service to the Selling Stockholder shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Selling Stockholder.

18. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.

19. Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to you in care of: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 1585 Broadway, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal Department; and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, One Bryant Park, New York, New York 10036, attention of Syndicate Department, with a copy to ECM Legal; and, if to the Company, shall be delivered, mailed or sent to Voya Financial, Inc., 230 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10169, (fax: 212-309-8491), Attention: Chief Legal Officer, and if to the Selling Stockholder shall be delivered, mailed or sent to ING Groep N.V., P.O. Box 1800 1000 BV Amsterdam The Netherlands (fax +31(0) 20576 09 50), Attention General Counsel Corporate Legal.

20. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

[Signature Page Follows]


Very truly yours,

VOYA FINANCIAL, INC.

By:		/s/ RODNEY O. MARTIN, JR.
		Name: Rodney O. Martin, Jr.
		Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

By:		/s/ EWOUT L. STEENBERGEN
		Name: Ewout L. Steenbergen
		Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

ING GROEP N.V.

By:		/s/ R. VENKATARAMAN
		Name: R. Venkataraman
		Title: Head of ING Bank Acquisitions & Divestments

By:		/s/ C. BLOKBERGEN
		Name: C. Blokbergen
		Title: Head of Corporate Legal Department

[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]


Accepted as of the date hereof

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

Acting severally on behalf of themselves and the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

By:		/s/ SCOTT ROBERTSON
		Name: Scott Robertson
		Title: Managing Director

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

By:		/s/ TAYLOR WRIGHT
		Name: Taylor Wright
		Title: Managing Director

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SCHEDULE I


Underwriter	Number of Shares To Be Purchased
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated		11,138,997
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC		11,138,996

Total:		22,277,993

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SCHEDULE II(A)

Time of Sale Prospectus

Number of shares offered by the Selling Stockholder: 22,277,993

Public offering price: The price per Share paid by each applicable investor.

Free Writing Prospectuses Included in Time of Sale Prospectus: Launch press release, dated September 2, 2014

SCHEDULE II(B)

Free Writing Prospectuses Not Included in Time of Sale Prospectus:

NONE

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SCHEDULE III

Significant Subsidiaries

Voya Holdings Inc.

Voya Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company

Voya Insurance and Annuity Company

ReliaStar Life Insurance Company

Security Life of Denver Insurance Company

Security Life of Denver International Limited

Voya Investment Management LLC

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SCHEDULE IV

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS DELIVERING LOCK-UP AGREEMENTS

Jane P. Chwick

Patrick G. Flynn

J. Barry Griswell

Frederick S. Hubbell

Hendricus A. Koemans

Willem F. Nagel

Deborah C. Wright

David Zweiner

Rodney O. Martin, Jr.

Alain M. Karaoglan

Ewout L. Steenbergen

Mary E. Beams

Jeffrey T. Becker

Bridget M. Healy

Chetlur S. Ragavan

Kevin D. Silva

Michael S. Smith

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Annex A

Form of Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Counsel to the Company

1.	The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.

2.	All outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.

3.	The Company is not on the date hereof an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

4.	All regulatory consents, authorizations, approvals and filings required to be obtained or made by the Company under the Covered Laws for the execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, the Underwriting Agreement have been obtained or made.

5.	The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, the Underwriting Agreement will not violate any Covered Laws.

The execution and delivery by the Company of the Underwriting Agreement do not, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement will not, (a) violate the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company, in each case as in effect on the date hereof, or (b) result in a default under or breach or violation of the agreements listed on Annex A to this opinion; provided, however, that we are expressing no opinion in clause (b) as to compliance with any financial or accounting test, or any limitation or restriction expressed as a dollar amount, ratio or percentage in any of the agreements listed on Annex A.

7.	The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

As counsel to the Company, we reviewed the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, dated September 2, 2014 (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”, together with the Basic Prospectus and the information in Schedule II(A) to the Underwriting Agreement, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”), and the Prospectus Supplement and participated in discussions with your representatives and those of the Company and its accountants and representatives of ING Groep N.V. (“ING Group”). In addition, we reviewed opinions addressed to you from the Company’s New York insurance regulatory counsel regarding certain portions of the Basic Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference therein. Between the date of the Prospectus Supplement and the time of delivery of this letter, we participated in further discussions with your representatives and those of the Company and its accountants and representatives of ING Group and reviewed certificates of certain officers of the Company and representatives of ING Group, letters addressed to you from the Company’s accountants and opinions addressed to you from the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, the Company’s New York insurance regulatory counsel and ING Group’s

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Dutch counsel. On the basis of the information that we gained in the course of the performance of the services referred to above, considered in the light of our understanding of the applicable law (including the requirements of Form S-3 and the character of prospectus contemplated thereby) and the experience we have gained through our practice under the Securities Act, we confirm to you that, in our opinion, the Registration Statement, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement, and the Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement, appeared on their face to be appropriately responsive, in all material respects relevant to the offering of the Securities, to the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Also, we confirm to you that the statements contained under the caption “Description of Our Capital Stock,” and under the captions “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence—Continuing Relationship with ING Group”, “Material U.S. Federal Tax Considerations for Non-U.S. Holders of Our Common Stock” and “Underwriting” included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus Supplement, insofar as they relate to provisions, therein described, of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Amended and Restated By-laws of the Company, the Underwriting Agreement relating to the Securities, the Shareholder Agreement, the Transitional Intellectual Property License Agreement and the Equity Administration Agreement, constitute a fair and accurate summary of such provisions in all material respects.

Further, nothing that came to our attention in the course of such review has caused us to believe that, insofar as relevant to the offering of the Securities,

(a) the Registration Statement, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or

(b) the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of P.M. on , 2014, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or

(c) the Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

We also advise you that nothing that came to our attention in the course of the procedures described in the third sentence of the preceding paragraph has caused us to believe that the Basic Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, as of the time of delivery of this letter, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials that are furnished to the Underwriters.

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The opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein

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Annex B

Form of Opinion of General Counsel

(1) To my knowledge, the execution and delivery by the Company of the Underwriting Agreement and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder did not and will not result in a breach of, a default under or the acceleration of (or entitle any party to accelerate) the maturity of any material contract or material obligation of the Company as in effect on September 8, 2014, or result in or require the creation of any lien upon or security interest in any property of the Company pursuant to the terms of the material agreements of the Company as in effect on September 8, 2014.

(2) To my knowledge, except as set forth or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, dated June 18, 2014, or the Prospectus Supplement, dated September 2, 2014,

(i) there is no action, investigation, suit or proceeding pending as of September 8, 2014, before or by any court, arbitrator or governmental agency, body or official to which the Company is a party or to which the business, assets or property of the Company is subject, and

(ii) no such action, investigation, suit or proceeding is threatened to which the Company would be a party or to which the business, assets or property of the Company would be subject,

that in either case (i) or (ii) if determined adversely to the Company, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial position, results of operations or prospects of the Company or on the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement.

In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials that are furnished to the Underwriters.

The opinion of the General Counsel described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.

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Annex C

Form of Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the qualifications and assumptions stated herein, we are of the opinion that the statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and in the Prospectus under the captions “Risk Factors – Risks Related to Our Holding Company Structure – The ability of our insurance subsidiaries to pay dividends and other distributions to ING U.S., Inc. and Lion Holdings is further limited by state insurance laws, and our insurance subsidiaries may not generate sufficient statutory earnings or have sufficient statutory surplus to enable them to pay ordinary dividends.” and “Regulation – Insurance Regulation – Insurance Holding Company Regulation – Dividend Payment Restrictions” (which statements are marked in the excerpts attached hereto as Exhibit A) insofar as such statements purport to summarize certain provisions of the New York Insurance Law or regulations promulgated thereunder, fairly summarize such provisions in all material respects.

In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials that are furnished to the Underwriters.

The opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Company and shall so state therein.

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Annex D-1

Form of Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Counsel for Selling Stockholder

1.	Assuming that the Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Selling Shareholder under the laws of The Netherlands, the Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Selling Shareholder.

All regulatory consents, authorizations, approvals and filings required to be obtained or made by the Selling Shareholder under the Covered Laws for the execution and delivery by the Selling Shareholder of, and the performance by the Selling Shareholder of its obligations under, the Underwriting Agreement have been obtained or made.

3.	The execution and delivery by the Selling Shareholder of, and the performance by the Selling Shareholder of its obligations under, the Underwriting Agreement will not violate any Covered Laws.

Upon (i) payment of the purchase price by the Underwriters for the Securities being sold by the Selling Shareholder, (ii) delivery of such Securities, as directed by the Underwriters, to Cede & Co. (“Cede”) or such other nominee as may be designated by the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), (iii) registration of such Securities in the name of Cede or such other nominee and (iv) the crediting of such Securities on the books of DTC to one or more “securities account[s]” (as defined in Section 8-501 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”)) of the Underwriters maintained with DTC (assuming that such Underwriter does not have notice of any “adverse claim” (as defined in Section 8-105 of the UCC) with respect to such Securities or any security entitlement in respect thereof), the Underwriters will acquire a valid “security entitlement” (within the meaning of Section 8-501 of the UCC) to such Shares, and no action based on an “adverse claim” (as defined in Section 8-102 of the UCC) may be asserted against the Underwriters with respect to such security entitlement (assuming that the Underwriters are without notice of any such adverse claim).

In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Selling Stockholder and public officials that are furnished to the Underwriters.

The opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Selling Stockholder and shall so state therein.

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Annex D-2

Form of Opinion of Stibbe N.V.

1.	the Selling Stockholder is validly existing under the laws of the Netherlands as a public limited company (naamloze vennootschap) and has the necessary corporate capacity and power to enter into the Underwriting Agreement and to exercise its rights and perform its obligations thereunder;

2.	all corporate and other action required to be taken by the Selling Stockholder to authorise the execution of the Underwriting Agreement by it or on its behalf and the performance of its obligations thereunder has been duly taken;

3.	the Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed on behalf of the Selling Stockholder;

4.	there is nothing in the laws of the Netherlands which would prevent the Underwriting Agreement from constituting legal, valid and binding obligations of the Selling Stockholder, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms;

the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement and the performance by the Selling Stockholder of its obligations under the Underwriting Agreement do not conflict with or result in a violation of any provision of the articles of association of the Selling Stockholder or any provision of any applicable law or regulation, or published case law of the courts, of the Netherlands;

it is not necessary under the laws of the Netherlands to ensure the validity, enforceability or performance of the obligations of the Selling Stockholder under the Underwriting Agreement, or to make the Underwriting Agreement admissible in evidence, or to permit the Selling Stockholder to enter into any transaction contemplated by the Underwriting Agreement or to make any payment under the Underwriting Agreement, that

(i)

any approvals, consents, licences, authorisations or exemptions be obtained from any governmental authority or any court or fiscal, monetary or regulatory body in the Netherlands; or that

(ii)

the Underwriting Agreement or any particulars thereof be filed, registered, recorded or notarised with, in or by any such body or any competent authority, official registry or register in the Netherlands,

save for compliance by the Selling Stockholder with, if and to the extent applicable, reporting requirements under the Act on financial foreign relations of 25 March 1994 (Wet financiële betrekkingen buitenland 1994) and the rules promulgated thereunder (although non-compliance with such reporting requirements will not affect the enforceability of the obligations of the Selling Stockholder under the Underwriting Agreement);

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7.	the choice of the internal laws of the State of New York to govern the Underwriting Agreement is valid and binding upon the Selling Stockholder and will be recognised and upheld by the courts of the Netherlands;

8.	the submission by the Selling Stockholder in the Underwriting Agreement to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any Federal court located in the State of New York will be treated by the courts of the Netherlands as valid and binding on the Selling Stockholder and irrevocable;

9.	the appointment by the Selling Stockholder in the Underwriting Agreement of Corporation Service Company as its authorized agent to accept service of process on its behalf in respect of the jurisdiction of any New York court is valid and binding upon it;

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a judgment which is enforceable by execution in the State of New York and has been obtained against the Selling Stockholder in relation to the Underwriting Agreement in a Federal court located in the State of New York will not be enforceable in the Netherlands without re-litigation in the absence of a treaty between the Netherlands and the United States of America with respect to the mutual recognition and enforcement of civil judgments. However, under current practice, the courts of the Netherlands may be expected to render a judgment in accordance with the judgment of the relevant foreign court, provided that such judgment has not been rendered in violation of elementary principles of fair trial and is not contrary to the public policy of the Netherlands and further provided that such judgment is a final judgment and has been rendered by a court which has established its jurisdiction vis-à-vis the Selling Stockholder on the basis of a valid submission by the Selling Stockholder to the jurisdiction of such court; we must reserve our opinion as to whether this practice extends to default judgments as well; and

11.	the Selling Stockholder is not entitled to claim for itself or for any of its assets, immunity from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process under the laws of the Netherlands applicable thereto.

In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Selling Stockholder and public officials that are furnished to the Underwriters.

The opinion of Stibbe N.V. described above shall be rendered to the Underwriters at the request of the Selling Stockholder and shall so state therein.

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EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF LOCK-UP LETTER]

September 2, 2014

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

As managers of the offering (the “Managers”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (the “Managers”) propose to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Voya Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and ING Groep N.V., a public limited liability company formed under the laws of The Netherlands (the “Selling Stockholder”), providing for the public offering (the “Public Offering”) by the several Underwriters, including the Managers (the “Underwriters”), of 22,277,993 shares (the “Shares”) of the Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”).

To induce the Underwriters that may participate in the Public Offering to continue their efforts in connection with the Public Offering, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Managers on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 45 days after the date of the final prospectus relating to the Public Offering (the “Prospectus”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), by the undersigned or any other securities so owned convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock or (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not

apply to, (a) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into Common Stock as a bona fide gift, (b) transfers to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, (c) transfers of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock in connection with the direct or indirect acquisition of 100% of the Common Stock by a single person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), and (d) one or more sales of shares of Common Stock to satisfy tax withholding or similar obligations in connection with any equity compensation awards; provided that, in the case of any transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (b), the transfer shall not involve a disposition for value, and provided further, that, in each of the cases of any transfer pursuant to clause (a) or (b), (i) each donee or trust, as applicable, shall sign and deliver a lock-up letter substantially in the form of this letter and (ii) no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock, shall be required or shall be voluntarily made during the restricted period referred to in the foregoing sentence. In addition, the undersigned agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Managers on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending 45 days after the date of the Prospectus, make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriters are relying upon this agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Public Offering. The undersigned further understands that this agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.

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Whether or not the Public Offering actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions. Any Public Offering will only be made pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, the terms of which are subject to negotiation among the Company, the Selling Stockholder and the Underwriters.

Very truly yours,

Name:

Address:

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