- Gerry Fitzsimons
Infobox Person
name = Gerry Fitzsimons
image_size = 75
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birth_date = 1960
birth_place =
death_date = 2007
death_place = UK
employer = TTP Ventures
occupation =CEO
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parents =
children = 5Gerry Fitzsimons (1960 – 2007) was a British
businessman , chief executive ofTTP Ventures , [See: cite web
title = Death of Gerry Fitzsimons, CEO of TTP Ventures
date= November 2007
publisher =Cambridge Network
url = http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=41798
accessdate =2007-11-30; ] a director of TeraView, Oxford Diffraction and TTP Group plc. [See: cite web
title = TTP Ventures
date= November 2007
publisher =SiliconFen Business Report
url = http://www.siliconfenbusiness.com/viewcomp.php?id=327
accessdate =2007-11-30; ] He wasCambridge Network 's first Company Secretary.Career
With a degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University, he left University College in 1981. After the College of Law in Guildford, he joined
Clifford Chance in 1982 and qualified as a solicitor in 1984. After qualification he spent time at Clifford Chance – now the world's largest law firm – and with the leading New York law firm ofShearman & Sterling .In 1987 Gerry moved to
Taylor Vinters in Cambridge where he remained until 1996, when he started up the Cambridge Garretts office alongsideArthur Andersen . He was managing partner of the Cambridge office of Andersen Legal until 2002 when its global offices were hit by the fall-out at Arthur Andersen following theEnron scandal and the firm was closed down.Gerry then took up the chief executive role at TTP Ventures with his familiar passion. He had been external legal counsel to TTP Group since it was formed and to the fund. He was also a director of TeraView, Oxford Diffraction and TTP Group plc.
Gerry had extensive experience of negotiating and structuring private equity transactions and exits. As a top corporate lawyer with a particular focus on the technology sector, he undertook a large number of private equity transactions - both for investee companies and funds. The major legal profession guides all rated him “an outstanding rainmaker.”
His significant transactions included the October 2000 IPO of TTP Communications plc, the December 2000 merger of The Astron Group Limited and Tactica Group plc and the merger of Dalehead Foods Limited and Roche Foods Limited in September 1999.
His regular venture capital clients had included Technomark/Lloyds TSB Development Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, First Cambridge Gateway and TTP Ventures.
Death
Gerry Fitzsimons has died aged 47 following a lengthy battle against lung cancer.
References
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