• Represented Protective Life Corporation in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company’s individual life insurance and annuity business;

• Represented Zurich Insurance Group in the reinsurance to RGA of a $2.3 billion block of Zurich’s in-force annuity business;

• Represented Aegon in its deal to sell its two largest U.S. run-off businesses, pursuant to which Aegon's Transamerica life subsidiaries will reinsure $14 billion of liabilities to affiliates of Wilton Re US Holding Inc.;

• Represented AXIS Capital in the sale of its Australian operations to Swiss Re;

• Represented Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company (MLMIC) in its pending acquisition by National Indemnity Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary;

• Represented RGA in the reinsurance of a $90 billion block of term life insurance business of Voya;

• Represented Assurant in the $940 million sale of its employee benefits business to Sun Life Financial;

• Represented Dai-ichi Life in its acquisition of Protective Life Corporation;

• Represented RGA in the reinsurance of a $104 billion block of term life insurance business of Voya;

• Represented Allstate in the sale of Lincoln Benefit to Resolution;

• Represented Berkshire Hathaway in its $4 billion reinsurance transaction with Cigna;

• Represented Aviva plc in its sale of Aviva USA Corporation to Athene Holding Ltd.;

• Represented Aegon in its acquisition of the credit insurance business of AIG;

• Represented Allstate in its acquisition of the personal lines business of CNA;

• Represented Capital Prospects in its acquisition of Standard Life of Indiana; 

• Represented RGA in its acquisition of Allianz Re;

• Represented Inviva in its acquisition of Conseco Variable Insurance Company;

• Represented Great-West in the sale of its healthcare business to Cigna; and

• Represented Great-West in the sale of the group business of Canada Life to Jefferson Pilot 

Donald is a frequent public speaker on insurance and corporate topics. He has served as Chair of the Village of Bronxville Planning Board and as a member of New York City Community Board 8.

• “EU-US Negotiations Could Shake Up US Insurance Regulation,” Law360 (January 2016).
• Co-Author, “Developments in the Regulation of Reinsurance in the United States,” Inside the Minds (2014)
• Co-Author, "Special Interest: New York's high court clarifies the ground rules for stranger-owned life insurance transactions in the Empire State," Best's Review (April 2011).
• "Overview of the Life Settlement Market," The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (May 2009).
• "Insurable Interest, the 800 lb. Gorilla," Life Settlement Review (May 2009).
• Donald has written on insurance and corporate issues for numerous other publications, including International Insurance Law Review, Business Insurance, The National Underwriter and Reinsurance.

• The Best Lawyers in America
• Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Export Guide’s: Best of the Best USA
  
• Who's Who Legal: Insurance and Reinsurance
  
• New York Super Lawyers

^{* Donald advised on these matters at his prior firm.}