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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Jennifer Donohue

Work Department
Insurance
Position
Lawyer and mathematician Jennifer’s practice focuses on transactional and corporate insurance and reinsurance. She advises insurance firms, (both life and non-life), brokers, banks, hedge funds, private equity, protection and indemnity clubs (P and I Clubs) and financial institutions in, or involved with, the insurance and risk sectors. Advice includes both mergers and acquisitions, including take-over panel work, capitalisations, reorganisations, financial structuring, policy and product development and pre-insolvency strategies, schemes of arrangement and managed exits such as run-off. She also advises Her Majesty’s Government and other governments on insurance legislation and drafting, the most recent being that of insurance-linked securities.
Jennifer’s extended experience includes providing advice on financings across the insurance and banking sectors based upon forensic engineering and modelling. This includes the provision of regulatory capital, Solvency II and Basel III technology, and incorporates the use of derivatives, monetisations and securitisations, and debt trading.
Because of her mathematics work she also advises on cyber risk, crypto currencies and cryptography, encryption and decryption. This advice spans work in the energy and commodities sectors as well as that of bio-tech and regenerative medicine. She works extensively in the algorithm, AI and Machine learning space.
Career
2018 | Keystone Law | Consultant Solicitor |
2015 – 2017 | Ince and Co LLP | Partner Head of Transactional and Corporate Insurance and Reinsurance |
2014 – 2015 | Locke Lord LLP | Partner Head of Global Insurance and Reinsurance |
2010 – 2014 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP | Partner Head of Global Insurance Markets |
2007 – 2010 | Simmons and Simmons LLP | Partner Head of Global Insurance Markets |
2005 – 2007 | Hogan Lovells | Partner and Global Head of Insurance and Reinsurance |
2003 – 2005 | PWC Legal | Partner and Global Head of Insurance and Reinsurance |
2001 – 2003 | Addleshaw Goddard | Partner and Head of Corporate Insurance |
1998 – 2001 | Nabarro Nathanson | Partner |
1992 – 1998 | Barlow Lyde and Gilbert | Associate, Senior Associate then Partner |
1992 | Qualified as a Solicitor |
1983 – 1992 | BEIS and Cabinet Office | Legal Adviser then Senior Legal Adviser |
1983 | Qualified as a Barrister |
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Private client > Court of protection
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Private client > Court of protection
- Insurance > Professional negligence