Edgar Filing: DELPHI FINANCIAL GROUP INC/DE

Ownership Submission

FORM 4

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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person ^*

ROSENKRANZ ROBERT

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
DELPHI FINANCIAL GROUP INC/DE [DFG]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

__X__ Director	__X__ 10% Owner
__X__ Officer (give title below)	_____ Other (specify below)
Chairman & CEO

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

C/O DELPHI CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC., 590 MADISON AVENUE, 30TH FLOOR

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
02/16/2007

(Street)

NEW YORK, NY 10022

4. If Amendment, Date Original Filed(Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing(Check Applicable Line)
_X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned

1.Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Class A Common Stock	02/16/2007		S		25,875	D	$ 40.94	121,172	I ⁽¹⁾	(1)

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Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

1. Title of Derivative Security
(Instr. 3)

2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security

3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)

3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)

4. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)

5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4, and 5)

6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date
(Month/Day/Year)

7. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities
(Instr. 3 and 4)

8. Price of Derivative Security
(Instr. 5)

9. Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 4)

10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)

11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)

Code

(A)

(D)

Date Exercisable

Expiration Date

Title

Amount or Number of Shares

Deferred Share Units

⁽²⁾

02/16/2007

73,475

⁽³⁾

Class B Common Stock

73,475

⁽⁴⁾

73,475

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address	Relationships
Reporting Owner Name / Address	Director	10% Owner	Officer	Other
ROSENKRANZ ROBERT C/O DELPHI CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. 590 MADISON AVENUE, 30TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10022	X	X	Chairman & CEO

Signatures

Chad W. Coulter, Attorney-in-Fact for Robert Rosenkranz		02/21/2007
^**Signature of Reporting Person		Date

Explanation of Responses:

*	If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
**	Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
(1)	Includes 112,981 shares owned by corporation and 8,191 shares owned directly.
(2)	1-for-1.
(3)	The deferred share units are receivable or forfeited, as applicable, upon the occurrence of the applicable events described in the Company's Amended and Restated Long-Term Performance-Based Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), pursuant to which the award of the deferred shares units was made, and are subject to the supplemental requirement that a retirement of the reporting person from employment that would otherwise entitle the reporting person to receive such shares under the Plan must occur on or after February 8, 2010, provided that such requirement will be eliminated with respect to 24,492 of the deferred shares on each of February 8, 2008 and February 8, 2009 and, with respect to the remaining deferred shares, on February 8, 2010.
(4)	Not applicable.

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