About Liz Dunshee

Liz Dunshee works at Cooley as a Senior Strategic Advisor, Capital Markets & Corporate Governance. Liz is also a Senior Editor for TheCorporateCounsel.net and CompensationStandards.com, where she contributes to blogs, podcasts, events, and has written for The Corporate Counsel and The Corporate Executive print newsletters. Liz previously served as CCRcorp’s Managing Editor. Over the course of her career, Liz has counseled boards, executives, chief legal officers, corporate secretaries and compliance personnel on the full range of securities law and corporate matters, including sensitive board matters, Securities and Exchange Commission and stock exchange-based disclosure issues, stock exchange listing compliance, investor communication and voting trends, insider trading and Rule 10b5-1 plans, executive compensation issues and executive succession matters. Additionally, she has helped companies prepare to go public, navigate public and private offerings of equity and debt, implement activism defense measures, respond to shareholder proposals, and manage board and committee roles and procedures. As a Senior Strategic Advisor at Cooley, Liz helps identify the latest issues affecting public and late-stage private companies, so that Cooley clients receive practical guidance that is both forward-looking and grounded in business realities.

Liz has been involved as a member and a Chapter Officer for the Twin Cities Chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance for many years, is a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, and was named a Best Lawyer in America in Corporate Law in 2025. During law school, she interned for the Honorable Randy Holland of the Delaware Supreme Court. Liz is a frequent author and speaker on securities and corporate law topics, with articles appearing in publications such as Bloomberg Law, Business Law Today, Law360, The Corporate Board and The Corporate Governance Advisor.

Liz can be reached at liz@thecorporatecounsel.net. You can also follow Liz on LinkedIn.