Shayne & Jacobs

Shayne & Jacobs

Shayne & Jacobs was founded in Nashville in 1994 by Jon Shayne and Bill Jacobs. The firm operates as an independent registered investment adviser, deliberately staying out of the pooled-vehicle business by running individually managed separate accounts. Its client base spans individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and private businesses. Shayne & Jacobs is a value-oriented equity manager. The firm constructs concentrated portfolios of publicly traded stocks, treating each position as a fractional ownership stake in a business. It does not disclose a private-investment or alternative-asset sleeve, and there is no evidence of venture, real estate, or private credit programs. The investment mandate appears limited to long-only public equities, executed solely within separately managed accounts. The geographic focus is primarily domestic US. The firm is boutique by design, operating from a single office in the Hill Center in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood. No team-size or aggregate deployment figures are publicly available. Shayne & Jacobs gives no indication of adjacent vehicles — there is no affiliated foundation, real-asset arm, operating company, or club-membership disclosure. No verifiable operational event from the last 24 months was identified in available sources. The structural differentiator is the absence of a commingled fund. Every client owns the underlying securities directly in a segregated account, so they retain tax-lot control and can customize restrictions. That architecture makes Shayne & Jacobs less scalable than a pooled manager but gives individual clients a level of portfolio control typically reserved for single-family offices.