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In September 2009, Natasha joined Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan LLP as a Partner upon its merger with Natasha L. Blackshear & Associates, PLC ("the Firm") she founded in 2005. Natasha has more than eleven years of high finance, business, and legal experience, concentrating her practice in public and corporate finance. Natasha's corporate transaction practice focuses on handling financial transactions, such as capital formation in early stage companies, private offerings on behalf of private companies, and due diligence on behalf of investors (angel investors, venture capital and private equity investors) in private companies. Natasha provides legal counsel on corporate formation, corporate law, securities disclosure matters, and start-up business planning and tax matters, and represents both individuals and private businesses in disputes regarding shareholder (partner and member) rights. Through our public finance group, Natasha serves issuers and underwriters engaged in municipal bond transactions.
Prior to founding the Firm, Natasha worked as a venture capitalist for five years at Council Ventures, LP, during which time, as part of the investment team investing the venture capital firm's first fund of $52 million, she analyzed over 800 business plans, interviewed scores of entrepreneurs, performed intensive (business, financial and legal) due diligence, negotiated transaction terms, drafted term sheets and edited closing documents.
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.
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New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee
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Commissioner (appointed by Tennessee's Governor Bredesen) and Secretary, Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth; Trustee, Board of Trusts of American Sentinel University; Member, Advisory Board of Cornell University's Emerging Markets Program; Director, Market Matters, Inc.; Past President, Harvard Club of Middle Tennessee; Member, Rotary Club of Nashville; Member and Chair of Community Outreach Committee, Napier Looby Bar Association; Member, the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
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