Vanderbilt University has announced a $10 million gift from alumnus and board member Justin Ishbia (JD '04) in support of Vanderbilt Law School.

The gift will be used to support the school's key strategic priorities and strengthen its position as one of the nation's premier institutions for legal scholarship. A member of the Vanderbilt Law School board of advisors, Ishbia also made a gift in 2015 to establish the Justin R. Ishbia Scholarship at the school.

"Our momentum as a top-tier law school is driven by alumni like Justin who support our mission to provide an unmatched legal education," said Chris Guthrie, dean of Vanderbilt Law School and John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law. "Justin's unwavering support for the law school is especially meaningful to me because he was one of my first students at Vanderbilt. Since graduating, he has gone out of his way to support the law school, and I couldn't be more grateful for his extraordinary generosity."

"Vanderbilt has made a transformative impact on my life — from giving me the tools to join a premier law firm after receiving my degree, to helping me formulate the original business plan that ultimately became Shore Capital," said Ishbia, founder and managing partner of private equity firm Shore Capital Partners. "With this latest gift, I want to enable and expand upon the types of experiences I've had at the law school and on the Vanderbilt campus for future generations of students and scholars."