The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal interagency committee, also must approve the deal, along with various regulators in foreign nations where Genworth does business.

“We have done all the filings, and we have had a lot of dialogue back and forth with (regulators),” McInerney said in an interview after the meeting. “They tend to wait to really get going until after shareholders have voted.” McInerney said he expects that the Virginia Bureau of Insurance likely will hold a public hearing on the proposed deal.

Genworth, which sells mortgage insurance and long-term care insurance, agreed to the deal with China Oceanwide after struggling for several years with financial losses in its long-term care insurance business.

The merger deal includes a cash infusion and debt reduction from China Oceanwide worth about $1.1 billion, which Genworth executives have said should make the deal more likely to win regulatory approval.

McInerney said Tuesday that he expects to remain with the company after the deal closes. “I have told Oceanwide that we are three to five years away from finishing the fixing of long-term care, so I am prepared to do that,” he said.