RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD — Director's Dealing 2012

Nov 21, 2012

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD (RNR)
CIK: 0000913144
Period of Report: 2012-11-19

Reporting Person: Weinstein Stephen Howard (SVP, General Counsel & Secty)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2012-11-19	Common Stock	M	12000	$39.07	Acquired	113650	Direct
2012-11-19	Common Stock	F	8002	$80.18	Disposed	105648	Direct
2012-11-20	Common Stock	S	3998	$79.64	Disposed	101650	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2012-11-19	Non-Qualified Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$39.07	M	12000	Disposed	2012-11-19	RNR Common Stock (12000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	2970	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: The transactions reported hereby relate to the exercise of employee stock options originally granted to the Reporting Person on November 19, 2002 with a ten year term. The exercise was effected on the expiry date of November 19, 2012 pursuant to a previously disclosed Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on August 16, 2011.

F2: The transaction reported hereby reflects the concurrent sale of shares on November 20, 2012 issued on the exercise of the employee stock options described above. The sale as well as the exercise was effected pursuant to a previously disclosed Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on August 16, 2011.

F3: Represents exclusively shares held by two separate trusts for the benefit of each of two minor children of the Reporting Person, respectively (the "Trusts"), which shares may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Reporting Person.