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DISCLOSURE BROCHURE
(FORM ADV, PART 2A)
SHAYNE & JACOBS, LLC
4015 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 203
Nashville, TN 37215
615-250-1600 (phone)
shayneandjacobs.com
March 24, 2025
This brochure provides information about the qualifications and business practices of
Shayne & Jacobs, LLC. If you have any questions about the contents of this brochure,
please contact us at 615-250-1600. The information in this brochure has not been
approved or verified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or
by any state securities authority.
Additional information about our firm is also available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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Summary of Material Changes
On March 24, 2025, William E. (Bill) Jacobs became the sole President and Chief
Compliance Officer of our firm, Shayne & Jacobs, LLC. He also became, at that time, the
owner of all of the firm's governance rights, and owner of nearly all of its financial rights.
Jonathan A. (Jon) Shayne, who was, until March 24, co-President and co-owner with Bill,
is now associated with us in a research-only, semi-retired, role.
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Shayne & Jacobs, LLC
March 24, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Advisory Business ...................................................................................................... 4
Fees and Compensation .............................................................................................. 5
Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management .......................................... 9
Types of Clients .......................................................................................................... 9
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss .................................. 9
Disciplinary Information ........................................................................................... 12
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations ................................................ 12
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions, and Personal Trading
................................................................................................................................... 13
Brokerage Practices .................................................................................................. 14
Review of accounts ................................................................................................... 16
Client Referrals and Other Compensation ................................................................ 17
Custody ..................................................................................................................... 17
Investment Discretion ............................................................................................... 17
Voting Client Securities ............................................................................................ 18
Financial Information................................................................................................ 18
Information on Bill Jacobs ........................................................................................ 19
Information on Tom Chapman.................................................................................. 21
Information on Darren Heintzman ............................................................................ 23
Note: In this document, the word “we” refers to our firm, Shayne & Jacobs, LLC. “You”
means the reader, as a prospective or current client. We often speak about things as if you
had opened an account with us, even if you have not already.
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Advisory Business
A) Description of our firm
We manage investment securities for our clients. Our firm is run by William (Bill)
Jacobs. The firm started as Shayne & Co., LLC, in 1994. We combined with Jacobs
Investment Management, LLC, in 2023, and at that time Bill became a 50% co-owner
and co-President with Jonathan A. (Jon) Shayne. Also at that time, we changed our name
to Shayne & Jacobs, LLC.
On March 24, 2025, we updated our ownership and management structure. Bill now
owns nearly all of the shares, is Chief Compliance Officer and sole President, and owns
all governance rights. This was a friendly transaction, mutually agreed upon by both
parties. Jon is now associated with us in a research-only role.
B) Description of our services
We offer portfolio management based on fundamental analysis of corporate financial
statements. (See section titled “Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of
Loss” for further details on our investment style.) We manage your account on a
discretionary basis.
If there are assets marked “special” on any portfolio appraisals we may send you
quarterly, or if we have previously identified certain assets as “special” in our
communications with you, we provide either no management services on them, or only
such services as we have agreed upon with you.
If you believe that your primary need is financial planning, we may recommend that you
go to a firm that specializes in it. We sometimes refer clients to such firms. We do not
focus on financial planning ourselves, although some financial planning issues do come
up as part of our investment management discussions with clients. Our best fit is with
prospective clients who have a long-term investment horizon on a certain amount of
capital that we can manage for them without regard to generating a particular level of
income.
C) Tailoring our services to individual needs and restrictions on investing
We manage your portfolio with the purpose of reaching investment goals that are suitable
for you. We will refuse your account if your goals are not compatible with our approach
to investment management. Your account will be separate, not pooled, and held at a
brokerage firm or other custodian independent of us. Your name will be on the account
and you will retain all indicia of ownership.
You may impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities.
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D) Wrap fee programs
We do not participate in a wrap fee program.
E) Assets under management
As of December 31, 2024, we managed $561.9 million in discretionary assets. Beyond
that amount, our clients had an additional $52.1 million in “special holdings” in their
accounts. Special holdings are assets for which clients have restricted our discretion to
sell. We do not provide regular and continuous management services for special holdings
in client accounts.
Fees and Compensation
A) How we are compensated for our services
We charge an annual advisory fee of up to 1% of assets under management, payable
quarterly, for new accounts. In effect, this is the maximum advisory fee. We may also
arrange with the client to charge separately for special services, although this happens
only infrequently.
If you are a prospective new client, our standard procedure is that we and you will agree,
prior to engagement, to a fee rate that is based on the assets under management. At the
same time, you and we normally will also agree to an allocation to stocks and stock funds
(“market exposure”), which is typically a range (for example, 55-70%). Generally, we
will charge a lower fee than the agreed-upon rate until the account becomes “fully
invested,” or in other words, until the market exposure reaches the allocation range. The
lower rate would be based on the market exposure on the last day of the quarter as a
percentage of the middle of the allocation range. However, this adjustment is
discretionary and may vary. In no cases will you be charged more than the agreed-upon
rate, and in no cases will the agreed-upon rate be more than 1% annually, payable
quarterly. We may vary from the foregoing norms as warranted, with your consent.
On August 11, 2023, when we were still called Shayne & Co., LLC, we combined with
Jacobs Investment Management, LLC. Clients with accounts in existence at the time of
the combination are currently billed in accordance with the pre-combination rates that
applied to their accounts:
Client formerly of Jacobs Investment Management, LLC prior to the combination in
August, 2023:
Fees for the company's services are payable quarterly in advance (or, in some cases,
based on client history, in arrears). Generally, the fee is 0.25% per quarter of the first
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$5,000,000 under management plus 0.175% per quarter of assets above $5,000,000 but
below $10,000,000; plus 0.125% per quarter of assets above $10,000,000. In some cases,
we have an agreement in place with the client to charge at a different rate.
Clients whose accounts were managed by Shayne & Co., LLC prior to the combination in
August, 2023:
In effect we waive some fees, relative to the 1% maximum, by lowering the billing rate as
follows, billing separately on each asset class as components of the total bill. These are
all annual rates, billed quarterly:
1% on equities of operating companies
0.35% on equity-oriented mutual funds and ETFs,
0.25% on fixed-income-oriented mutual funds and ETFs, other than those with a
mandate that requires a majority holding in U.S. Treasury debt
A maximum of 0.5% on U.S. Treasuries, money market funds, and cash
(“T/MMF/C”), including mutual funds or ETFs with a mandate that requires a
majority holding in U.S. Treasury debt.
The rate on T/MMF/C will be 0% until an account gets to 90% in equities
or equity-oriented mutual funds and ETFs. Once the account gets to the
90% threshold, the billing rate on T/MM/C becomes 0.5%, even if the
account later goes below the 90% level. However, if the rate on the 6-
month U.S. Treasury Bill is below 1.00% at time of, or within three
months prior to, billing, we may or may not decide not to charge the 0.5%
fee on T/MM/C.
Please note that whether you are a prospective new client, or an existing or pre-
combination client of either Jacobs Investment Management, LLC, or Shayne & Co.,
LLC, we may vary from our standard arrangements where warranted, in our judgment,
including by the client relationship and client history.
Any specific agreement with you with regard to fees will take precedence over the
foregoing.
To be clear, all of the foregoing fee-related practices result in an annual rate that is, at
most, 1%, billed quarterly, and this is true whether you were a pre-combination client of
either of our two predecessor firms, or are a prospective client now.
We also provide consultation-only, or in other words, non-discretionary investment
advisory services, for a negotiated fee. Generally, this approach will be appropriate only
in special circumstances.
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B) How we bill for our fees
Our clients pay us a quarterly management fee. You may choose to pay by check, or have
us deduct it from your account. We calculate quarterly fees on the ending value of your
account as of the previous quarter’s end. For example, fees for the third quarter (July 1 to
September 30) are calculated based on the value of your portfolio as of June 30, generally
excluding the value of any special assets. The quarterly invoice we send shows how we
calculate your fee.
When you pay our management fee by check, payment is due by the end of the quarter.
When you allow us to deduct fees directly from your account, we typically will do so
during the middle of the last month of the quarter (for example, for the third quarter, we
deduct fees around September 15).
We have a small number of accounts that have a history, through Jacobs Investment
Management, LLC, of being billed in arrears, rather than at the end of the quarter. These
are exceptions to our usual practices.
C) Other fees or expenses paid in connection with our advisory services
In addition to the advisory fee that clients pay us, clients also pay fees to others. These
consist primarily of brokerage firm fees, and fees charged by any mutual fund or
exchange-traded fund (together, “fund” or “funds”) that they hold.
For brokerage services, we typically use the institutional division of Charles Schwab &
Co., Inc.
Our investing generally uses individual securities, including common stocks and U.S.
Treasury debt, and funds. To the extent one or more funds are in your portfolio, your
investment return will be reduced by fees and expenses that a fund you hold charges.
When evaluating our services, you should take into account both the fees that we charge
and the fees charged by funds in your account. Funds can charge management fees, fund
expense fees, and distribution fees. Some mutual funds impose an initial or deferred sales
charge (although we try not to buy funds that have sales charges for our clients). Funds
deduct fees from your investment in the fund. Some funds charge an additional fee if you
redeem within 90 days of purchase. You will find a description of a fund’s fees and
expenses in its prospectus. You can invest in a fund on your own, without using our
services. See also heading A of this section, above.
We currently are likely to recommend Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., as the custodian for a
new account. Schwab does not charge our clients a custodial fee, but it does earn revenue
through its cash management and bank deposit products, and such costs can be thought of
as a custodial charge of sorts. Schwab charges incidental fees, such as $25 for some wire
transfers or to settle a trade placed with another broker. These charges from the custodian
can change over time. If you specify a particular custodian, we are not responsible for
negotiating the custody fees your custodian charges you.
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When we purchase or sell securities for you, we use a broker as agent to execute the
trade, or place the trade directly with a market maker. If we place the trade with a broker,
the broker may charge you a commission. If we place the trade with a market marker, the
market maker will typically charge you a mark-up or mark-down on the security being
traded.
We ask for your written authority to negotiate commission rates with the broker we
recommend. You may impose limitations on such authority.
We generally make trades as a block when possible and advantageous for clients. This
permits the trading of aggregate blocks of securities coming from or going to multiple
client accounts. When your account participates in an aggregate trade, the price for the
security will be the average cost per unit for the block.
Broker transaction costs are shared equitably among clients, but may still vary from
account to account. Schwab, for example, used to offer a discounted brokerage fee for
accounts held by households that custody $1 million there.
Our negotiated rate with a brokerage firm can cause a minimum commission to be
charged on smaller trades. Smaller accounts are more likely to trigger minimum
commissions than larger accounts.
A fixed-income dealer may add a mark-up to the unit price of a fixed-income trade that is
based on the number of accounts participating in the trade. If your account value is larger,
you may pay a higher percentage of the markup than a client with a smaller account. We
place large trades with dealers who don’t do this type of mark-up, but it is conceivable
that we would if we faced very limited options on a particular trade.
Despite such differences among accounts, we still believe the overall trading costs you
will pay, even if you receive no discount, are reasonable.
See the section titled “Brokerage Practices” for additional information.
D) Refund of fees at termination of advisory contract
You may terminate the investment advisory contract at any time, without previous notice.
We have the right to do the same. If you or we terminate our services, we will refund all
unearned fees you have paid us. Under our billing method, described above under the
heading, “How we bill for our fees,” if you allow us to deduct our fee directly from your
account, you may have prepaid our quarterly fee by up to half a month. (To calculate
your refund at termination, we divide our quarterly management fee by the number of
days in the quarter to arrive at a per-day rate for our services. Starting at the day after you
or we terminated the contract, we count the days left in the quarter and multiply it by the
per-day rate that applies to your account for the quarter. The product of this
multiplication is your refund.)
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E) Compensation for the sale of securities or other investment products
We do not accept compensation for the sale of securities or other investment products.
We do receive benefits (see section titled “Brokerage Practices”) through participation in
the institutional service program at Schwab. However, the benefits we receive do not
depend upon the amount of brokerage commissions we direct to them.
Performance-Based Fees and Side-by-Side Management
We do not currently bill clients based on performance. We would consider negotiating
such an arrangement when it is of interest to a client, regulation permitting.
Types of Clients
We offer investment advice to individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts,
charitable organizations, and businesses.
We generally prefer a dollar value of $1,000,000 to open an account for you. This figure
is negotiable, and can vary depending on the client and our willingness at any time to
undertake new business. In some cases, we would impose no minimum.
Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies, and Risk of Loss
A) Method of analysis and investment strategy used in formulating investment advice
We manage your portfolio with a long-term approach to investing. In some situations, we
might use other techniques, primarily shorter-term purchases and sales, but that is not our
focus. We follow a strategy of concentrating investments in a fewer number of securities
than is typical for most investment advisory firms. We believe this approach allows us to
focus on our best investment ideas, and that, over time, this approach is preferable to
holding a more diversified portfolio involving a large number of positions.
Your account will likely make some use of money market funds and/or bank deposits to
hold cash balances. Your account may also make use of mutual funds or exchange-traded
funds.
You might not be invested in the same securities as other clients. For example, we may
consider a security worth holding for a client who has already bought it, but determine
that the same security is not priced low enough in relation to our estimate of its intrinsic
worth to be an appropriate investment for a new client, or for new additions of capital by
existing clients. One outcome of this approach to investing is that newer clients often will
not hold some securities that older clients have bought and continue to hold.
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You may have capital not invested in equities for a period of months or years during
times that we do not find equities we deem appropriate. We often hold U.S. Treasury
securities, or funds (which, again, refers here to both mutual funds and exchange-traded
fund) that hold fixed income instruments, when we are not finding stocks or other
investments we want to buy.
In cases in which clients wish to have total exposure to equities at all times, or wish to set
a floor on percentage of equity exposure, we can help establish a mandate for your
account to specify this. In some cases, however, and unless our written communications
with you specify otherwise, we will have the full range of discretion from 0 to 100% for
exposure to equities.
We analyze securities using fundamental methods to help us estimate the value of a
security. Sources we use are, depending on the situation, annual reports; prospectuses;
other filings with the SEC; financial newspapers and magazines; research services such
as Value Line, Bloomberg, and Morningstar; research materials prepared by others; and
company press releases. This process involves judgments, including about which
documents to read, and in what level of detail.
While we attempt to make our investing productive for you, investing in securities
inherently means taking the risk of loss, which you must be prepared to bear.
B) Risk involved in our investment strategy
Despite our belief in the long-term desirability of focusing capital in a relatively few
securities, concentration can expose your portfolio to greater company-specific and
industry-related risk. One or more particular investments could perform poorly. You
should consider the risk that greater concentration poses, weigh it against the possible
benefits (which are not guaranteed and may not occur), and seek investment advice
elsewhere if you prefer a more diversified approach.
All portfolios of stocks can suffer losses. Risk to equity investments can come from
declines in the value of the whole stock market, particular sectors, and individual
securities. Global, national, and regional risks, such as war, widespread disease,
cyberattack, or recession, can cause losses. Climate problems, supply chain disruptions,
and changes in currency values can do so, too. Industry-specific and company-specific
problems, such as changes in the nature of a business, or adverse legal or regulatory
developments, are further possible causes of loss.
Investments other than common stocks can also suffer losses. For example, fixed-income
instruments (such as bonds, notes, and bills) typically decline in value when interest rates
rise (and increase in value when rates decline). Also, the bonds of an issuer that suffers a
credit agency rating downgrade, or that cannot make scheduled payments, will generally
decline in price. Instruments such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are
generally more diversified, internally, than a single security, but this does not protect
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against declines that affect broad sectors of the securities markets. This is true whether
these vehicles hold equities, bonds, or other types of securities. The value of an
investment in a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund will almost always decline if the
investments that the fund itself holds decline.
Inflation may erode the purchasing power of an investment. It is possible that an
investment that has returned a positive amount in nominal terms may not have kept up
with inflation, particularly after taxes, and thus could still have a negative “real”
(inflation-adjusted) return, or a return less than other investments, including index funds.
As described above in “Fees and Compensation -- How we are compensated for our
services,” we charge different fees on different assets to some or all accounts of clients
with a history that is from one of our predecessor firms, Shayne & Co., LLC. This creates
a conflict of interest, because in theory, this might lead us to buy, or not to sell, assets that
pay us more. We pride ourselves on always trying to do what is right for you, regardless
of which asset pays us more or less. If, however, we fail in disregarding the differential
rate of compensation that different assets pay, it may lead us to construct a poorer
investment portfolio for you than we otherwise would have.
For accounts that were previously managed by our other predecessor firm, Jacobs
Investment Management, LLC, there is a somewhat similar risk, which is that we have an
incentive to get your account as fully invested in equities as your contract mandate
contemplates, to end any discounting. (See also “Fees and Compensation -- How we are
compensated for our services.”) Again, we pride ourselves on always trying to do what is
right for you, regardless of the fact that we would earn less if we were less fully invested
than the mandate percentage. If, however, we fail in disregarding the differential rate of
compensation, it may lead us to construct a poorer investment portfolio for you than we
otherwise would have.
For newer accounts, i.e., those that do not date to our predecessors, the risks mentioned in
the foregoing two paragraphs will also be relevant, depending on which type of fee
structure is in place for you.
Our firm is highly reliant on the availability of a relatively small number of people,
particularly Bill Jacobs. If we suddenly were to lose the services of Bill or others, our
investing and operations could be adversely affected. Jon Shayne, our former co-owner
and co-President, has transitioned to a research-only, semi-retired role at our firm. His
schedule is flexible and he is not required to spend a specific number of hours each
month on research. Depending on how much or little research he performs in his new
capacity, which began in March of 2025, our investing process could be adversely
affected.
We make reasonable efforts to secure data related to your account, especially when
information is transferred electronically. However, each medium of communication,
including ground mail, fax, electronic file transfer, email, and phone, has its own risks.
We advise you not to send sensitive information such as account numbers by electronic
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means, such as file transfer or email, unless you use encryption. We provide encrypted
upload and download, through a third-party vendor, at no charge, for electronic
communication with us. There is still always the risk of loss despite your efforts, and
ours, to keep data from being compromised. We cannot guarantee the safety of this data,
despite our reasonable efforts to protect it. Clients should be aware of this risk and
monitor their accounts accordingly.
Again, we do attempt to make investing productive financially for you. There are risks,
however, of the kind we have enumerated. There can be no guarantee of success, and
losses are possible.
C) Risk involved in our security selection
While we may provide advice on a number of different types of securities, our primary
focus is on exchange-listed and over-the-counter securities, United States government
securities, and funds (mutual funds and exchange-traded funds).
As discussed above, the securities that we focus on carry systematic risk (associated with
fluctuation in the general level of securities prices and overall market risks) and
unsystematic risk (associated with individual events that affect a particular security).
Even a security we analyze properly may lose money for our clients. We analyze
securities in good faith, but our judgment may be incorrect, or we may inadvertently miss
material facts, causing losses for our clients.
Disciplinary Information
With regard to the regulatory record of our firm and employees:
A) Neither our firm nor any of our employees has been involved in any legal event
involving a criminal or civil action in a domestic, foreign, or military court of competent
jurisdiction.
B) Neither our firm nor any of our employees has been involved in any administrative
proceeding before the SEC, any other federal regulatory agency, any state regulatory
agency, or any foreign financial regulatory authority.
C) Neither our firm nor any of our employees has been involved in any self-regulatory
organization proceeding.
Other Financial Industry Activities and Affiliations
A) Broker-dealer registration
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Not applicable.
B) Other industry registrations
Not applicable.
C) Affiliations
Jon Shayne holds a license to practice law in the State of Tennessee. He does not do legal
work for clients of our firm, and he does not maintain a law practice. We advise you to
obtain independent legal counsel for legal issues that may arise relating to your finances.
D) Selection of other investment advisers
We manage your account in-house and we do not rely on outside investment advisers
(other than those who run mutual funds or exchange-traded funds we buy for you). We
receive no compensation if we refer you to a lawyer, accountant, or other professional.
Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions, and Personal
Trading
A) Code of Ethics
We have adopted a code of ethics that affirms honesty, our fiduciary duty to you, and our
legal and regulatory compliance in business matters. Our code requires us to report and
review securities holdings and trading of our officers and employees.
We will send a copy of our code to you if you request one.
B) Recommendation of securities to clients in which our firm or a related person has a
material financial interest
We do not recommend securities to you in which our firm or employees have a material
financial interest. For example, if you are a buyer in a trade, we are not the seller.
C) Investment in the same securities as clients
Our firm and our employees may buy or sell securities identical to those we recommend
to you. Historically, this has been our practice, and we expect it to continue. We have a
policy that no person employed by us may purchase or sell a security in such a way as to
disadvantage you. We have established the following procedures to avoid a conflict of
interest so that we can meet our fiduciary responsibilities to you:
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Our firm and employees shall not buy or sell securities for their portfolios when
their decision is derived from information gathered while working at our firm,
unless the information is also available to the investing public on inquiry.
Our firm and employees shall not make any personal gain from the market impact
of a trade by our firm on your behalf.
We maintain a list of securities holdings for everyone associated with our firm.
We review employee transactions on a regular basis.
We require that our employees act in accordance with applicable federal and state
laws, and rules and regulations governing registered investment advisory
practices.
Employees not in observance of the above are subject to termination.
D) Timing of the firm’s or related person’s trading
We allow our firm and employees to trade securities at the same time we trade for you, if
the trading is done as part of an allocated trade where clients and the firm/employees are
on equal footing. We do not allow the firm or our employees to use trading to take
advantage of clients, and we and they cannot knowingly trade before clients.
Brokerage Practices
A) Factors for selecting broker-dealers
The text of our standard investment advisory contract provides us with authority to
determine the broker-dealer to be used for your securities transactions. You may impose
limitations on the authority.
We use Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., and sometimes other unaffiliated broker/dealers, to
provide transaction services to us that are useful in managing your account.
We select and recommend broker-dealers to you based on the quality of execution
services, the reasonableness of commissions and other charges, and the minimization of
possible administrative problems and expense with the settlement of your trade. We also
consider the reputation of the broker-dealer. Price is important to us, but it is not the only
factor we consider.
A1) Research and soft dollar benefits
We participate in Schwab’s institutional program. There is no link between the
investment advice we give you and our participation in the program. The program does
provide us with economically useful benefits, however. These benefits include:
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receipt of duplicate copies of your confirmations and statements
access to Schwab’s online account servicing platform
access to exclusive trading desks for your trades
access to block trading (which provides us with the ability to aggregate security
transactions and then allocate shares to your account)
the ability to have our investment advisory fee deducted directly from your
account (if you so authorize)
free compliance newsletter and compliance education
free software in connection with our trading activity
access to mutual funds which are available only to institutional investors
Schwab provides us with software that is dedicated to processing and holding information
downloads from their network. Schwab also provides data about some or all accounts to a
third-party software and data processing vendor we use in order to be able to generate
reports about your account.
Schwab provides customer service to our clients and our firm that we believe is superior
to that received by Schwab’s retail customers.
Schwab does not charge us for any of these benefits.
We believe our firm qualifies for a higher level of goods and services (described above)
from Schwab because of the amount of assets our clients have with them.
A2) Brokerage for client referrals
We do not recommend broker-dealers based on referrals.
A3) Directed brokerage
As mentioned above in this section, we ask you to allow us to control the selection of the
broker-dealers used for your account. To date, we have usually traded through Schwab.
There are efficiencies to be had from concentrating our volume with a limited number of
brokerage firms. Also, were we to place a trade through multiple brokers at once, or in
rapid succession, we might give the impression of too much activity in a stock or other
security, which could cause it to run up in price when we are buying, or down in price
when we are selling.
We do not ordinarily accept limitations on our authority to control the selection of a
broker-dealer, although some other advisory firms do. If you direct us to use a particular
broker-dealer, and if we make an exception and consent to this restriction, you should
understand that we may not be authorized to negotiate trading costs and may not be able
to achieve volume discounts or best execution for you. Under these conditions, you might
pay higher trading costs and commissions than other clients.
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B) Aggregate trades
When we have a trade to do for multiple clients, we typically place the trade in a block,
except when trading open-end mutual funds. (Because open-end funds trade only at
close-of-day prices, there is no advantage to trading them in a block.)
Our policy is to prepare, in advance of a block trade, a written pre-trade allocation
showing how we will allocate to clients the securities bought or sold.
Sometimes we can fill an order only partially. In that case, we allocate pro-rata, subject to
a minimum fill amount. We use a minimum fill amount to avoid the cost and inefficiency
of placing numerous small trades in your account. Our minimum fill policy will often
cause our allocation of the partial fill to deviate from a strict pro-rata allocation. We have
adopted a policy of rotating through our allocation list when making such partial fills,
based on a neutral formula, so that the system is fair to all clients.
If we deviate from our pre-trade allocation and our standard treatment of partial fills, it is
our policy that such deviation be fair and equitable. A senior officer must approve the
deviation. We also keep a record of the deviation.
See also the section titled “Fees and Compensation,” above.
Review of accounts
A) Frequency and nature of review
As of March 24, 2025, Bill Jacobs manages all accounts that have not been managed by
Tom Chapman. Darren Heintzman may begin managing a small number of accounts for
new clients who request him as manager.
For periodic reviews, our analyst Tom Chapman performs a review of your account at
least monthly to see if it has funds available for investment, and the mix of securities in
it. Your account manager reviews your account at least quarterly.
B) Other than periodic review of accounts
We may make a more frequent review of your account for other reasons. These include
unusual market, economic or political events; the need or opportunity to execute a trade;
and additional risk and investment management issues that may come up from time to
time outside of periodic reviews.
C) Reports provided to clients
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Our managers anticipate sending out a newsletter approximately two to three times per
year. There is no set schedule, and the frequency may vary depending on many factors,
including our understanding of client needs, and our understanding of conditions in the
economy and in financial markets.
See section titled “Custody” below for reports that your custodian will provide to you.
Client Referrals and Other Compensation
A) Economic benefits to our firm from sources other than clients
We receive payments for our services only from clients. We receive certain economic
benefits through our use of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. We describe these above in the
section, “Brokerage Practices.” These benefits are customary and largely directed toward
helping us service accounts efficiently. We do not believe they create a conflict of
interest.
B) Compensation to persons outside of our firm for referrals
We do not compensate any person outside of our firm for client referrals.
Custody
The broker on a trade will send you a confirmation for each security transaction. Your
custodian will send you a statement at least quarterly. The statement will show all cash,
cash-equivalent, and security transactions in your account as well as account balances
and market value of your account. As required by regulation, we advise you to review
custodial statements carefully, and to compare portfolio appraisals from us to your
custodian’s statement.
Investment Discretion
We manage your account on a discretionary basis. We request that new clients give our
firm written authority to determine the securities we buy or sell for you, the amount of
securities we buy or sell for you, and the broker-dealer we use for your securities
transactions. You may impose limitations on our discretionary authority at any time.
If we manage an account for you, you will sign a limited power of attorney that gives us
the authority to trade in your account. When you execute our Investment Advisory
Contract, you grant us written authority to have investment discretion over your account.
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Voting Client Securities
A) Authority to vote client securities and voting policies
Corporations put matters to a vote by shareholders from time to time. One common topic
of votes is the election of board members. Our Investment Advisory Contract allows you
the choice of voting your own proxies, or, as we generally recommend, of giving us the
authority to vote them. We have adopted policies and procedures that govern our voting
of your proxies. If you have given us general permission to vote for you, it is not possible
logistically for you to vote on individual solicitations. You may revoke our proxy voting
authority for future votes, however.
The goal of our proxy voting policies is to be sure that we vote the proxies when
appropriate, and that we vote them in a client’s best interest. If there is ever a conflict
between a client’s interest and the interest of our firm and employees, the client’s interest
controls how we vote.
We will provide a copy of our full proxy voting policy to you upon written request to the
address on the cover of this brochure. You may also write to ask that we provide a copy
of how we voted the proxies in your account.
B) When authority to vote client securities is not given to us
You can decide to retain proxy voting privileges by checking a section on your contract
and another on the Schwab account application, or by making arrangements with another
custodian you may have chosen for your account. If you retain voting privileges, you will
receive your proxy and other solicitations directly from your custodian.
If you decide to vote your own proxies and have a question about how to vote on a matter
relating to a security we manage for you, you may write or call us. Please allow two
weeks. If the issue is one that we have already researched for other clients, we will tell
you how we recommend you vote it.
Financial Information
Not applicable.
Brochure Supplements (Form ADV, Part 2B)
See the following attached three Forms ADV, Part 2B for additional information on Bill
Jacobs, Tom Chapman, and Darren Heintzman.
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BROCHURE SUPPLEMENT
(FORM ADV, PART 2B)
This supplement supplies information on the following supervised person of
Shayne & Jacobs, LLC:
William E. Jacobs
(Contact information for him is the same as firm information below)
SHAYNE & JACOBS, LLC
4015 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 203
Nashville, TN 37215
615-250-1600 (phone)
March 24, 2025
Information on Bill Jacobs
This document provides information about Bill Jacobs that supplements the preceding
attached disclosure brochure (ADV, Part 2A) on Shayne & Jacobs, LLC.
Additional information about Bill is also available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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Educational Background and Business Experience
Bill Jacobs was born in 1966. He has the following degrees:
University of Pennsylvania, BSE, 1989
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, MM, 1993
Business background:
Analyst and portfolio manager, Harris Associates, L.P., 1997 – 2003.
Partner, analyst, and portfolio manager, Harris Associates, L.P., 2004 – 2006.
President, chief manager, Jacobs Investment Management, LLC, 2006 – 2023.
Director of Research, Patten Group, 2014 – July, 2023.
Co-president, Shayne & Jacobs, LLC, August, 2023 – March, 2025.
President, Shayne & Jacobs, LLC, March, 2025 - present.
Disciplinary Information
None.
Additional Compensation
As the primary owner of our firm, Bill benefits from the fees that you pay.
Supervision
As sole President and Chief Compliance Officer of our firm, Bill Jacobs does not have a
supervisor. Bill is responsible for the supervision and monitoring of investment advice
offered to clients as well as the general direction and business strategy of the firm. He can
be reached at the phone number on the front of this supplement. Mr. Jacobs will oversee
all material investment policy changes and periodic testing conducted to ensure that client
objectives and mandates are being met.
While Bill, as our president, does not have a supervisor, many of his activities are
reviewed by other employees. For example, his emails are automatically sent to another
employee, and his personal securities transactions are reviewed by another employee.
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BROCHURE SUPPLEMENT
(FORM ADV, PART 2B)
This supplement supplies information on the following supervised person of
Shayne & Jacobs, LLC:
Thomas W. Chapman
(Contact information for him is the same as firm information below)
SHAYNE & JACOBS, LLC
4015 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 203
Nashville, TN 37215
615-250-1600 (phone)
March 24, 2025
Information on Tom Chapman
This document provides information about Tom Chapman that supplements the preceding
attached disclosure brochure (ADV, Part 2A) on Shayne & Jacobs, LLC.
Additional information about Tom is also available at the SEC’s website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
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Educational Background and Business Experience
Tom Chapman, Analyst, was born in 1970. He received a B.A. from Indiana University
in 1993.
For more than the preceding five years Tom has been an Analyst with our firm. Tom
started here in 1995.
Disciplinary Information
None.
Other Business Activities
Tom is not involved in any investment-related business or occupation outside of his work
at our firm.
Additional Compensation
Tom receives a salary from the firm. We also compensate him under special arrangement
for accounts that he both refers and manages, and his compensation for his efforts in
relation to such accounts include all management fees paid by such an account.
Supervision
Our firm is a relatively small, one-office company. Thus, a primary method of
supervising is simply the fact that we work together in close proximity.
Tom’s supervisor is Bill Jacobs. Bill is also our chief compliance officer. You can reach
Bill at the phone number on the front of this supplement. Any account that Tom advises
is held by one or more members of Tom’s family.
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BROCHURE SUPPLEMENT
(FORM ADV, PART 2B)
This supplement supplies information on the following supervised person of
Shayne & Jacobs, LLC:
Darren R. Heintzman
(Contact information for him is the same as firm information below)
SHAYNE & JACOBS, LLC
4015 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 203
Nashville, TN 37215
615-250-1600 (phone)
March 24, 2025
Information on Darren Heintzman
This document provides information about Darren Heintzman that supplements the
preceding attached disclosure brochure (ADV, Part 2A) on Shayne & Jacobs, LLC.
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Educational Background and Business Experience
Darren Heintzman was born in 1995. He has the following degrees:
Freed-Hardeman University, B.S., 2017
Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 2024
Business background:
Darren became an Analyst for the firm in September 2024. For more than the preceding
five years Darren was conducting his Ph.D. research at Vanderbilt University.
Disciplinary Information
None.
Other Business Activities
Darren is not involved in any investment-related business or occupation outside of his
work at our firm.
Additional Compensation
Darren receives a salary and discretionary bonus from the firm.
Supervision
Our firm is a relatively small, one-office company. Thus, a primary method of
supervising is simply the fact that we work together in close proximity.
Darren’s supervisor is Bill Jacobs. Bill is also our chief compliance officer. You can
reach Bill at the phone number on the front of this supplement.
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