Vince Flynn

Vince advises public companies, their boards and board committees on corporate governance, securities regulation and executive compensation matters, with annual meeting and proxy matters at the core of his practice. He counsels clients on governance policies and best practices, proxy advisory firm and institutional investor voting guidelines, shareholder proposals, shareholder engagement and activism, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and stock exchange reporting and disclosure requirements, and executive and director compensation. Vince also provides strategic counsel on emerging governance and disclosure developments, helping companies craft thoughtful proxy statements and other public disclosures that address evolving proxy advisory firm and institutional investor expectations and mitigate voting and governance risk. He began his Cooley career in the compensation and benefits practice, where he spent six years advising public companies on executive compensation matters, giving him a distinctive perspective on issues at the intersection of governance, compensation and disclosure.

While at the University of Virginia School of Law, Vince served as the lead executive editor of the Virginia Law Review. He also received the Best Appellate Brief award during his first year of law school and was a member of the North Grounds Softball League.

Prior to law school, Vince worked for two years as a high school mathematics teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in conjunction with Teach For America.