Kathleen A. Collier

Kathy Collier joined Presley Burton & Collier, LLC, in 2004, shortly after the firm was organized as Presley LLC. Prior to joining the firm, Kathy Collier was in private practice with another Alabama firm for over twenty years.

Kathy has experience serving as bond counsel, company or borrower counsel, issuer counsel, trustee counsel, lender or bank counsel and underwriter or placement agent counsel in various types of public finance transactions. The structures of the transactions on which she has worked vary greatly and include the issuance of notes by corporations, conduit financings through governmental authorities by both for-profit and non-profit entities, credit-enhanced transactions, both with bond insurance and letters of credit. She also has worked on the formation of governmental authorities and various acquisition transactions involving health care facilities. Kathy also has experience serving as company and trustee counsel in connection with various types of investment agreements and as company counsel and provider counsel in various interest rate swap transactions.

Kathy was born in Mobile, Alabama. She received her law degree from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1979, where she was Associate Editor of the Alabama Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif, a Hugo Black Scholar and selected for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa. Prior to law school, she attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1976 and where she was selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi. She is a member of the Birmingham and American Bar Associations and the Alabama State Bar Association. She is also a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers.