Kathy Tang

Member

Vancouver

(236) 317-5571

(604) 674-9245

Recent News:

17 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

Best Lawyers Canada has named 17 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.

Kathy focuses her practice in securities, corporate finance, and corporate/commercial law. She has extensive transactional experience, assisting clients with a variety of matters such as initial public offerings, private placements, stock exchange listing applications, reverse takeovers, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, and ongoing public company compliance. She believes in practical advice to support her clients' businesses.

Prior to joining the firm, Kathy was a partner in the capital markets and securities group of a Canadian national law firm. Earlier in her career she also worked at the British Columbia Securities Commission and brings valuable experience of involvement in policy initiatives of the Canadian Securities Administrators, which she acquired during time she spent working there.

Kathy earned her bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of British Columbia. Kathy is a frequent speaker for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and is a current instructor for the Simon Fraser University's Continuing Studies Course “Public Companies: Financing, Governance and Compliance.” She is also a member of the TSX Venture Exchange's Local Advisory Committee for Vancouver.

Experience

News

17 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

September 04, 2024

Best Lawyers Canada has named 17 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada.

Cozen O’Connor Announces New Group Chairs, Office Managing Partners, Other Promotions

February 15, 2024

The firm announced several new practice group chairs, office managing partners, and leaders of firm committees and initiatives

Ten Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

August 24, 2023

Ten Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices were selected for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada

Six Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch in Canada

August 30, 2022

Best Lawyers selected five Cozen O’Connor lawyers from the firm’s Toronto and Vancouver offices for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada and one attorney from the Vancouver office for Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Cozen O’Connor Continues its Canadian Expansion, Adding Another Three Attorneys to Its Vancouver, B.C. Office

March 21, 2022

Elizabeth Holden, Gosia Piasecka, and Nicholas Krishan will reunite with former colleagues Rory Godinho, Kathy Tang, Lucy Schilling, Brian Fast, and Iain Mingo — five corporate attorneys who moved to Cozen O’Connor from the same Canadian firm earlier this month.

Cozen O’Connor Continues International Expansion with Corporate Additions, Moves to New Vancouver Office Space

March 07, 2022

Rory Godinho, Kathy Tang, Lucy Schilling, Brian Fast, and Iain Mingo have joined Cozen O’Connor from a major national Canadian law firm.

Publications

Due Diligence Deskbook

June 01, 2021

Kathy Tang co-authored chapter 33, Securities Searches, in the 2021 Due Diligence Deskbook.

Events & Seminars

Past Events

Public Companies: Financing, Governance and Compliance

May 05, 2023 - Vancouver, British Columbia

Listed Issuer Financing Exemption Information Session

November 08, 2022 - Vancouver, BC

Ways to Go Public

November 21, 2019

Down Market Issues

December 04, 2015

Education

  • University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1999
  • University of British Columbia, B.A.

Awards & Honors

The Best Lawyers in Canada, Securities Law 2021-2025

  • British Columbia