The Co-Founder and President of LA Black Investors club, Shanita Nicholas most recently worked as an attorney at Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles, LLP, where she primarily focused on corporate transactions, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions matters and other general corporate and business matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Shanita worked at international law firms within mergers and acquisitions for middle market private equity clients and within derivatives and mergers and acquisitions for large private equity clients. Prior to her legal career, Shanita worked as an IT consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she acted as a liaison between government clients and technical specialists.

Shanita received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and her JD and MBA from Columbia University Schools of Law and Business, where she served as Operations Editor of the Columbia Business and Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the State of California.