Kathy Z. Zhou

Kathy Z. Zhou is an Associate at Paul Frank + Collins. Her practice spans Business + Transactions, Commercial Finance, Municipal Law + Public Finance, and Taxation. She advises entrepreneurs, business clients, banks, property developers, municipalities, and investors. Her work includes business and contract law, financing, and public finance, helping clients address the legal structures and documentation involved in business operations and major funding decisions.

Zhou earned a J.D. from William & Mary Law School in 2018, where she was Lead Articles Editor of the William & Mary Law Review. She received a B.A. in English and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University in 2015. She is admitted in Massachusetts and Vermont. Her education supports close reading, legal analysis, and the clear preparation of agreements and offering documents used in her transactional practice.

Zhou has served as bond counsel for Burlington and Winooski and represented lenders financing Vermont electric and gas utilities. Her experience also includes bonds for a materials recovery facility, asset and equity purchases, private fund structures, and nonprofit tax-exempt status applications. Before joining the firm, she clerked for the Vermont Superior Court in Rutland County and worked in-house at a national defense contractor.

Kathy Z. Zhou’s professional and community activities include service with the Cancer Patient Support Foundation and the Vermont Bar Association. Her work links business formation and governance with financing and compliance concerns. For a business or municipality, those subjects often arise within the same project and require coordinated decisions. She helps clients consider the organization, contractual commitments, and funding arrangements that will support their intended transaction or ongoing operations.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Paul Frank + Collins
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, Vermont Bar Association
• Secretary, Vermont Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division
• Member, Vermont Bar Association Workforce Development Committee
• Member, Chittenden County Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Vice President, Cancer Patient Support Foundation

Licensed State

• Massachusetts
• Vermont

Education

• William & Mary Law School
  J.D., Lead Articles Editor, William & Mary Law Review
• Vanderbilt University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English and Anthropology

Awards & Badges