Adam Tope

Career

Adam Tope advises secondaries firms, investment fund sponsors, and investors on fund formation and secondaries transactions. Having completed more than 200 secondaries transactions in his career, Adam has significant experience with pooled sale/purchase transactions and GP-led restructurings.

Adam's secondaries clients include lead investors in connection with GP-led and other complex secondary transactions and buyers and sellers in connection with the purchase and sale of fund interests.

Adam's sponsor-side clients include prominent and emerging private equity, infrastructure, energy transition, real estate, venture capital and hedge fund sponsors. He advises in multiple areas, including the drafting of offering memoranda, negotiations with investors and Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act compliance. Adam also draws on his computer science background to advise fund managers forming cryptofunds. Adam brings a global perspective to his practice, having represented managers and investors in dozens of jurisdictions.

Adam has worked with spin outs from Apollo, Carlyle, Riverstone, Summit Partners, and others. He has a deep understanding of how principal compensation is structured and can guide principals in negotiating vesting arrangements, key person/for cause removal rights, and rights to carried interest/promote.

Adam's investor-side clients include allocators, family offices, funds of funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds and royal families. He represents these investors in dozens of transactions in nearly every jurisdiction on an annual basis.

Adam is a former entrepreneur and served as the president and CEO of one of the 500 largest online companies – giving him an entrepreneurial perspective useful to first time funds, startups and venture-backed organizations.