Written Consent of Jorden Burt LLP

EX-99.10.A 4 d290572dex9910a.htm WRITTEN CONSENT OF JORDEN BURT LLP Written Consent of Jorden Burt LLP

Exhibit 10(a)


Jorden Burt LLP
1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W.		777 Brickell Avenue, Suite 500
Suite 400 East		Miami, Florida 33131-2803
Washington, D.C. 20007-5208		(305) 371-2600
(202) 965-8100		Fax: (305) 372-9928
Fax: (202) 965-8104
		175 Powder Forest Drive
		Suite 301
		Simsbury, CT 06089-9658
		(860) 392-5000
		Fax: (860) 392-5058

March 29, 2011

First Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company

50 Main Street

White Plains, New York 10606

Re:

Variable Annuity-2 Series Account

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on N-4

File Nos. 333-177070 and 811-05961

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to First Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company, a New York corporation, regarding the federal securities laws applicable to the issuance and sale of the contracts described in the above-referenced registration statement. We hereby consent to the reference to our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus filed as part of the above-referenced registration statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Jorden Burt LLP

Jorden Burt LLP

JORDEN BURT LLP