Kara Baysinger

Kara Baysinger is a Partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and a member of the firm’s Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group. She serves as Co-Chair of Willkie’s Insurance Regulatory and Insurtech groups. 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.

Baysinger’s commitment is recognized by Chambers USA (2024), where a client described her as “my attorney of choice for insurance and regulatory matters.” She has been recognized as a leading practitioner since the inception of Chambers in both California and Nationwide for Insurance.

Baysinger 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.