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:

  • Queen’s Park Equity on its oversubscribed £305 million private equity fund
  • Christofferson, Robb & Company on its separately managed accounts and funds of one (ranging in size from $150 million to $1 billion) with a number of cornerstone investors
  • Christofferson, Robb & Company in connection with ADIA’s strategic minority investment in Christofferson, Robb & Company
  • Allianz Capital Partners on its separately managed accounts and funds of one with a number of its cornerstone investors
  • BlueGem Capital Partners in connection with Lagfin SCA’s strategic minority investment in BlueGem Capital Partners
  • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation in connection with its strategic minority investment in Three Hills
  • Sackville Capital on its strategic equity minority investment in PACT Capital
  • Appian Capital on its internal management and regulatory arrangements, as well as on the development of its sponsor co-investment and carried interest platform
  • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on its separately managed accounts and funds of one
  • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation on its investments in a number of private funds and co-investment vehicles
  • Synthesis Capital on the establishment and raising of its $350 million debut fund and its separate co-investment platform
  • Centricus Asset Management on its fund-related matters 
  • The NATO Innovation Fund on its fund-related matters and investments in a number of European VC funds
  • Apollo on fund-related elements of sports financing transactions 
  • A major Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on a wide variety of private fund investments, co-investments, funds of one, and managed accounts*
  • A global asset manager on a number of different sales and purchases of private fund interests and GP-led secondary transactions*
  • A western European fund-of-funds sponsor on a GP-led strip sale and primary staple*
  • A northern European private equity sponsor on the establishment of a €1.3 billion buyout fund*
  • A western European private equity sponsor on the establishment of a €4 billion fund*
  • 2xN on the establishment of its debut venture capital fund*

* Matters handled prior to joining the firm

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LPC, BPP Law School, 2012
  • GDL, BPP Law School, 2011
  • MSc, London School of Economics, 2010
  • BA, London School of Economics, 2009

Languages Spoken

  • English