Brian Kaas

Brian Kaas is the current director at Happy Money. Prior to this, they held various positions at different companies including ForeverCar, Fiscalhive, Jenny Life, and CMFG Ventures. Brian was also a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP from August 1998 to August 2012. During their time there, they provided a broad range of legal services to clients in the insurance industry in areas such as business, transactional law, and regulatory insurance law. Brian has advised clients on structuring and negotiating complex commercial transactions involving the merger, acquisition, restructuring, and reorganization of insurance entities and the purchase, sale, and reinsurance of substantial blocks of business. Brian has also worked extensively with clients to develop, expand, and manage distribution channels for the sale of insurance products and services, including arrangements with managing general agents, broker-dealers, affinity partners, agencies, individual producers, and third-party administrators. Brian has negotiated joint ventures, producer and affinity arrangements, managed care arrangements, provider and administrative service agreements, product distribution transactions, and captive insurance arrangements. Brian also has substantial experience advising companies on issues related to the runoff and handling of distressed or discontinued blocks of business and other legacy issues. Furthermore, they have worked extensively on insurance regulatory matters, financial and market conduct examinations, privacy and data security issues.

Brian Kaas earned their Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their Bachelor's of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Public Policy and Administration.