Nate Shantz

Nate Shantz is the founder of Grey River Associates (opens in a new tab), an international law, taxation and structuring advisory firm serving global entrepreneurs and builders.

His academic interests lie in international taxation, capital mobility and entrepreneurship, including how the movement of people and capital shapes public institutions.

He studied at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, earning an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in finance and a double minor in psychology and economics. A President’s Gold Scholar, he was also an analyst with the Laurier Student Investment Fund, covering real estate and infrastructure. His fourth-year economics thesis, Moving Up the Value Chain, examined the Latin American auto parts industry.

His undergraduate research prompted a different kind of education: a 13,000-kilometre solo motorcycle journey through Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, and back. He wanted to experience for himself the region he had studied on paper.

He went on to work as an Analyst at Macquarie’s Private Capital Group, investing in mining projects with a focus on Latin America and West Africa, before co-founding a medical wholesale business, Franchise Global Health, which began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange in 2022.

At Yale University, he completed his MBA with a focus on international law, international taxation and finance, including one course at Yale Law School. His independent study with Professor Frank Zhang became Asymmetric Mobility. He also co-authored three entrepreneurship papers with Professor A. J. Wasserstein at Yale School of Management.

He is currently an LLM candidate at King’s College London, specialising in international tax.

He has travelled to over 70 countries and speaks Spanish fluently.