Chief Counsel for all of RenaissanceRe's global corporate development, including mergers, acquisitions, and alternative investments. Responsibilities include leading complex deal structuring and negotiations, and supporting the portfolio of fixed income investments, and private equity investments in the insurance and reinsurance industry.andChief Counsel of Capital Partners investment management business unit with more than $11B of assets under management (AUM), responsible for all legal aspects of the business. This includes RenaissanceRe's private securities transactions via its third party investment funds / insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, joint ventures, and catastrophe bonds. Responsibilities include structuring funds, negotiating with institutional investors, supporting capital raising, leading corporate governance, and designing regulatory compliance programs in Bermuda, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

As the Vice President, General Counsel of the Ventures department, I had general counsel responsibilities including analyzing regulatory developments, managing external counsel and expenses, advising boards of directors on their fiduciary duties and governance, negotiating commercial contracts, and designing charters, committees, and compliance programs. Products included insurance-linked securities, managed funds, and joint ventures in insurance and reinsurance.

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As a lawyer in the corporate transactional group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, I concentrated my practice on complex business transactions for both private equity and public company clients, as well as advising them on their general corporate matters. I led structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing of transactions across a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, software, healthcare, and insurance, ranging in size from millions to billions.

As a lawyer in the U.S. securities group at Allen & Overy LLP in London, I represented issuers and underwriters in debt and equity offerings (including IPOs), in a wide range of industries, including financial services, education services, retail banking, offshore drilling, and insurance, for clients in Amsterdam, Casablanca, London, Paris, Istanbul and Zurich.