John Fitzgerald - Managing Director & Founder

Thirty years of experience in private equity and law. Mr. Fitzgerald founded Cheyenne Capital in late 2003.

Mr. Fitzgerald has expertise as an investor, director and attorney. He specializes in sourcing and structuring acquisitions and investments - combining tax, business, and financial skills to engage in private equity buyouts, growth transactions, and investments in funds.

Prior to founding Cheyenne Capital, Mr. Fitzgerald was an attorney for 22 years. During that time, he primarily worked as a partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where he served as the head of the financial institutions practice. Mr. Fitzgerald has extensive expertise in financial industries, including banking, mortgage banking and consumer lending.

In private equity, Mr. Fitzgerald has direct experience in a full range of matters, including fund formation, acquisitions, mergers, financings, and divestitures (as well as the regulatory issues implicated by these transactions). Other significant private equity expertise covers consolidations, buyouts for private equity fund consortiums, acquisitions of financial services companies, and structuring transactions to minimize adverse tax consequences, and maximize tax and economic benefits.

As an attorney, Mr. Fitzgerald's private equity clients have included many of the nation's leading firms: Madison Dearborn Partners, Bank of America, CIVC Partners, Bain Capital, Chemical Venture Partners, Chase Capital Partners, PNC Bank and Centre Partners, among others. Projects for these firms have included fund formations, venture capital investments, and private equity buyouts (leveraged and non-leveraged) and divestitures - - ranging from $20 million to $1.5 billion per transaction. Mr. Fitzgerald has worked on more than 100 separate corporate transactions.

Mr. Fitzgerald received a B.S. from the State University of New York - Oneonta, and a J.D. from New England Law.