Adrian Grocock has extensive experience advising a broad range of clients on the formation, management, and structuring of their private funds across a variety of asset classes, including buyout, credit, infrastructure, and real estate. His experience ranges from advising first-time fund sponsors on their maiden fund launches to prominent sponsors on multi-billion-dollar products.
Adrian also advises sponsors on a variety of bespoke structures, including funds of one and separate managed accounts, as well as on their internal management, regulatory, sponsor co-investment, and carried interest arrangements.
In addition, Adrian has advised a number of clients on secondary transactions — both sponsor-led secondaries (on both sponsor and investor sides) and limited partner portfolio transactions (on both buyer and seller sides). Adrian also has an active investor-side practice in which he advises major institutional investors in relation to their investments in private funds and other bespoke structures.
Previously, Adrian was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and spent six months on secondment at a direct secondary fund sponsor in London.
Adrian's recent experience includes advising:
*Certain matters handled prior to joining the firm