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He has represented insurers and reinsurers in property casualty, life and annuity reinsurance transactions, as well as in general corporate and related regulatory matters.\nIn the area of insurance company run-off and receivership, he has represented insurance companies in solvent run-offs, statutory supervision, conservatorship, pre-packaged rehabilitations and exits from rehabilitation, and liquidations, as well as creditors of such insurance companies and acquirors of their assets.\nChambers USA has recognized Bernhardt as a leading insurance transactional attorney for many years. He also has been nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States. Partner Nationally Recommended for Insurance Transactions Legal 500 United States Named a Leading Insurance Transactional Attorney  Chambers USA Harvard College  New York University New York University School of Law New York Past Member, Insurance Law Committee, New York City Bar Association Atlas Merchant Capital in $2.05 billion acquisition of Talcott Resolution, the run-off life insurance and annuity division of The Hartford; Talcott Resolution buyer consortium in $9.6 billion structured settlement and fixed annuity reinsurance transaction with Global Atlantic; T\u0026amp;D Life Group in (i) $1.8 billion acquisition, with The Carlyle Group, of Fortitude Re from AIG and (ii) $2.1 billion co-investment transaction with GIC and The Carlyle Group; T\u0026amp;D Life Group in Fortitude Re’s $2.2 billion acquisition of Prudential legacy variable annuity business; Leading investment bank in $18.5 billion variable and fixed annuity reinsurance transactions with Japanese ceding companies; T\u0026amp;D Life Group in regulatory aspects of Taiyo Life Insurance Company's $4 billion life reinsurance transaction with Fortitude Re; ORIX Life Insurance Corporation in $1.4 billion acquisition of The Hartford’s Japanese variable annuity subsidiary; Leading Japanese life insurance company in $2 billion flow reinsurance transaction with Fortitude International Re; Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd in its acquisition of Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. 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