Founder & Managing Member
 

Phone:
(615) 361-6776 ext. 11

Fax:
(615) 361-6799

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 Natasha Blackshear
 
 
 
Natasha L. Blackshear, J.D., M.B.A. 


Experience:
Natasha Blackshear founded Blackshear Capital & Legal in 2005.  Natasha has over ten years experience in analyzing, valuing, investing in and counseling closely-held companies.  She concentrates her practice in corporate law, corporate finance and development and public finance.    tl-pharmacy.com
 
Prior to founding the Firm, Natasha worked as a venture capitalist for five years at Council Ventures, LP, during which time she analyzed over 800 business plans, interviewed scores of entrepreneurs, performed intensive due diligence (business, financial and legal), negotiated transaction terms, drafted and edited term sheets and closing documents. In all, Natasha helped to invest and reserve over $34 million in nine portfolio companies.
 
Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Natasha worked as a senior associate in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Corporate Valuation Consulting division (now merged with the investment bank of Duff and Phelps) where she performed valuations of clients' financial securities, businesses or business units, and underlying intangible assets by performing economic and financial analyses for business transaction, financial reporting and estate tax purposes.
 
Education:
  • J.D. 1997, Harvard Law School
  • M.B.A. January 1998, Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management
  • B.S., 1993, Cornell University (Applied Economics and Management; Golden Key National Honor Society)
  • Studied at the University of Seville Business School in Spain
 
Bar Admissions: New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee


Boards and Civic Involvement:
Commissioner (appointed by Tennessee's Governor Bredesen) and Secretary, Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth; Trustee, Board of Trusts of American Sentinel University; Director, Board of Directors, Foster Care Alumni of America and Market Matters, Inc.; Member, Advisory Board of Cornell University's Emerging Markets Program; Past President, Harvard Club of Middle Tennessee; Member, Rotary Club of Nashville, the American and Tennessee Bar Associations and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
 
Foreign Languages: Spanish

 

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