Meghan E. Flinn

Meghan Flinn is a partner in the White Collar Defense and Investigations group. She focuses her practice on government investigations and enforcement actions, internal investigations, and complex regulatory and private litigation matters at the trial and appellate level.

Meghan represents individuals, investment advisers, broker-dealers, public companies, banks, and other financial institutions before various state and federal regulators and enforcement authorities. These include the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and state banking and securities regulators. 

Meghan has extensive experience defending and counseling clients at each juncture of a government investigation, including with respect to subpoena responses, investigative testimony, and Wells submissions. She also represents clients in connection with government enforcement proceedings and litigation, investor lawsuits and class actions, and arbitrations with a concentration on the securities and financial services industries.

Her experience extends to defending and counseling clients in matters concerning, among other things:

• Insider trading, disclosure issues, sales practice violations, and other securities fraud allegations
• Gatekeeper or secondary liability under the securities laws
• Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
• Mutual fund board policies and procedures, including Section 15(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws
• Compliance and supervisory issues
• DOJ and qui tam claims asserted under the False Claims Act (FCA)
• Receiverships in SEC enforcement cases
• Collateral consequences and statutory disqualifications under the federal securities laws
• Regulatory examinations, including responses to exam deficiency letters

Additionally, Meghan assists clients with internal investigations to assess potential civil or criminal exposure in these and other areas.

Meghan has been selected to the Washington, D.C., Rising Stars list in the areas of White Collar Defense and Securities Litigation each year since 2020. 

Meghan chairs the Washington, D.C., office's Women in the Profession Committee and serves on the firmwide Women in the Profession Committee. She is also a member of the Young Professionals Committee of the Women in White Collar Defense Association and the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She is involved in various pro bono matters at K&L Gates, including representing a client in federal habeas proceedings and conducing research on behalf of a local victims' rights organization.

Prior to joining the firm, Meghan had the privilege of serving as a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph R. Goodwin for the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, where she assisted in managing the civil docket and the multidistrict (MDL) docket that contained over 70,000 product liability actions. In addition, she worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert B. King for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.