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Kanasha S. Herbert has a broad corporate law background and significant experience in corporate finance, venture capital and private placements. She represents private equity and venture capital firms and emerging companies in venture capital and angel financings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters primarily in the health care, insurance and technology industries. Kanasha has experience serving as external general counsel to numerous domestic and foreign entities.
Kanasha S. Herbert has a broad corporate law background and significant experience in corporate finance, venture capital and private placements. She represents private equity and venture capital firms and emerging companies in venture capital and angel financings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters primarily in the health care, insurance and technology industries. Kanasha has experience serving as external general counsel to numerous domestic and foreign entities.
Prior to joining the Firm, she served as the primary legal counsel representing State Street Corporation's Global Markets division's prime brokerage alternative principal securities lending and managed peer-to-peer securities lending business lines. Before becoming a lawyer, Kanasha was a hardware engineer at HP.
*Kanasha is only admitted in Massachusetts and New York.
CREDENTIALS
- J.D., Boston College Law School
Editor and Executive Board Member, Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest (Journal)
- M.S., Engineering Management, Northeastern University
Concentration in Computers and Information Systems - B.S., Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University
Concentration in Computer Engineering
- Massachusetts
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- Executive Vice President, Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (2019–2021)
- Secretary, Director and member of the Audit and Investment Committees, MassVentures, appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (2011–2017)
- Advisor, Technology Innovation Hub – Boston, Springboard Enterprises (Summer 2015)
- Women’s Leadership Initiative Fellow, Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts (2013-2014)
- Fellow, The Partnership, Inc. (2012)
- Member, Board of Advisors, YouthConnect (Boys and Girls Club of Massachusetts) (2013–Present)