Kara Baysinger

Kara Baysinger is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, Co-Chair of the Firm's Insurtech practice and a member of Willkie's Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group. She serves as Co-Chair of Willkie’s Insurance Regulatory group. She has vast experience representing national and international insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance-related service companies, insurtech companies and technology companies on a wide array of insurance regulatory, compliance and strategic matters. She also advises clients on regulatory investigations and examinations (including multi-state examinations), innovation and digital transformation, licensing, transactional and M&A matters, reinsurance, cybersecurity, market conduct, sales practices, and product and market development issues.

Kara began her career working in-house for insurance companies, where she led compliance, market conduct, product development and government relations functions. She is also the co-author of “Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500,” a groundbreaking look at the paths of women into the ranks of General Counsel.

Loyola University Chicago School of Law

J.D.

Client Service All Star

BTI Consulting Group

2022

Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business - Forever Influential Honor Roll

San Francisco Business Times

2017

Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law

ABA's Section of International Law

2014