Amy M. Wood is a partner in the Compensation & Benefits practice group and a member of the Cooley Business department. She joined the Firm in 2003 and is resident in the San Diego office.

Ms. Wood specializes in the areas of executive compensation, equity compensation and employee benefits. Her experience includes designing and implementing equity incentive plans and employment, severance and other compensation-related arrangements for both private and public companies, as well as advising clients on any tax, accounting, securities, or other federal and state law issues with respect to such plans and arrangements. Her experience also includes assisting with the parachute payment analysis and other compensation and benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions as well as designing and implementing stock option exchange programs.

Ms. Wood also assists public companies with their compensation-related disclosure in SEC filings and advises on the shareholder relations issues that arise in connection with compensation matters. She counsels public companies on a wide range of corporate governance issue and she has extensive experience counseling public companies on the proxy voting guidelines of specific institutional investors and the vote recommendation policies of proxy advisory firms such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis.

In 2003, Ms. Wood received a JD, cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the San Diego Law Review. In 2000, she received a BA, cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles.