Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

David Greenwald is the co-chair of Jenner & Block's internationally prominent reinsurance claims and counselling group, which has a broad-based practice representing cedants, including captive insurers, and reinsurers in significant reinsurance disputes. He is a tested trial lawyer with over 25 years of commercial litigation, arbitration and jury trial experience. He and his group have represented AXA Re, Canada Life Assurance Company, CIGNA, CSX Transportation, Employers Re, General Dynamics, General Electric, Genworth, HSBC, Kemper Insurance Companies, Peoples Energy, SCOR, Sunbeam, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, Trustmark Insurance Company, Union Pacific Railroad and many others in substantial insurance and reinsurance disputes. Mr Greenwald has also represented noteholders in significant reinsurance securitisation disputes.

Mr Greenwald is co-author of the comprehensive treatise Testimonial Privileges (ThomsonReuters 2012), and co-editor of Privilege and Confidentiality: An International Handbook (Bloomsbury 2012). He has served as the co-chair of the ABA's international and reinsurance subcommittees, and he is an active member of the IBA's insurance, litigation and arbitration committees, AIDA-Europe's Reinsurance Working Party, and of ARIAS. He has lectured and written frequently on insurance and reinsurance coverage law, and on ethics, e-discovery, and the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in the United States and their analogues in non-US jurisdictions.

For seven years, Mr Greenwald was the president of Mwangaza, a non-profit organisation that supports health-related projects for physically disabled children in Tanzania and other developing countries. He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School (1986); and cum laude from Georgetown University (1983). Jenner & Block is a full-service firm with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC.