(A) Description of Our Advisory Firm. GFG Alternative Investment Advisors LLC
(“GFG”, or “us”, “we” or “our”) is a SEC registered investment adviser. As stated on the
cover page of this Brochure, registration as an investment adviser does not imply a certain
level of skill or training. GFG has been in business since 2010. The principal owners and
controlling persons of GFG are Erik Friedman and Brian Robinson (the “Principals”) and
Greenwich Finance Group LLC (“Greenwich Finance Group”), a holding company
wholly-owned by the Principals. References herein to “GFG” shall be deemed to include
GFG’s affiliates, as applicable, unless the context otherwise requires.
(B) Types of Advisory Services We Offer.
Advisory Clients. GFG provides investment management services to, and has discretionary
investment authority over the assets of private investment funds (the “Funds”). Such
investment management services are generally referred to herein as “advisory services”.
The Funds are private investment vehicles formed to pool the assets of investors (investors
in the Funds and in Other Investment Vehicles (as defined below), collectively, the
“Investors”) for investment as summarized in Item 8 below and as described in the private
placement memorandum of each Fund (each such document for a Fund or Other Investment
Vehicle, a “PPM”). GFG distributes the relevant PPM to prospective investors in such Fund
together with the limited partnership agreement and subscription documents for such Fund
(which, collectively with the PPM, with respect to each GFG Investment Vehicle, is
referred to herein as the “Offering Documents” of such vehicle). The Principals of GFG,
both directly and indirectly through their ownership in Greenwich Finance Group, are also
the principal owners and controlling persons of the general partners of the GFG Investment
Vehicles, and thus control the business and affairs of the Funds. GFG’s clients are referred
to herein as “Clients”. Currently, the Funds are GFG’s sole Clients.
While the Funds are currently GFG’s sole Clients, in the future GFG may also provide
investment advisory services to other investment vehicles, separately managed accounts or
other accounts or similar arrangements (collectively, the “Other Investment Vehicles”, and
together with the Funds, the “GFG Investment Vehicles”). Specifically, GFG may, in the
future, among other things:
• provide investment advisory services to additional private investment funds
(“Additional Funds”);
• provide investment advisory services to one or more individual investors through
separately managed account arrangements (“Separately Managed Accounts”);
• advise entities that act as feeder vehicles into certain Funds (“GFG Feeder Funds”);
• provide investment advisory services to specially formed investment vehicles
through which certain investors may invest in substantially the same portfolio as
the Funds in order to meet tax, regulatory or other requirements (“Parallel
Investment Vehicles”); and
• form Other Investment Vehicles, Separately Managed Accounts or other accounts
or arrangements through which certain persons generally invest alongside one or
more Funds (each, a “Co-Investment Vehicle”). In certain cases, Co-Investment
Vehicles may pursue investments that are not pursued by Fund.
Nature of Advisory Services. GFG seeks to identify proprietary investment opportunities
with superior risk-adjusted returns and participates in the acquisition, management,
monitoring and/or disposition of such investments on behalf of the GFG Investment
Vehicles. Since inception, we have primarily provided investment advisory services
related to investments in assets originated by specialty finance companies (“Specialty
Finance Asset Investments”). Such Specialty Finance Asset Investments may be in “whole
asset”, “equity” or “debt” form, either directly or indirectly through acquiring interests in
special purpose entities which purchase assets or interests in such assets. Although the
primary focus of GFG to date has been Specialty Finance Asset Investments, GFG may
also from time to time in the future offer advice on other investment types (in each case to
the extent consistent with the applicable GFG Investment Vehicle’s investment objectives
and strategies (please see Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of
Loss, below)).
(C) Tailoring of Our Advisory Services. GFG generally provides investment advisory
services to a GFG Investment Vehicle pursuant to a separate investment management
agreement (and in the future may include sub-advisory agreements) (each, an “Investment
Management Agreement”). Each GFG Investment Vehicle’s Investment Management
Agreement sets forth the terms of the investment advisory services GFG provides to the
GFG Investment Vehicle. Investment guidelines for each GFG Investment Vehicle, if any,
are generally established in its organizational documents or Offering Documents,
Investment Management Agreement and/or side letter agreements negotiated with
Investors, if applicable (collectively, the “Governing Documents” for such GFG
Investment Vehicle). We generally provide investment advice directly to the GFG
Investment Vehicles, and not individually to the Investors in the GFG Investment Vehicles.
As more fully described in Item 11 below, GFG and its related entities routinely enter into
side letter agreements with certain Investors in the GFG Investment Vehicles providing
such Investors with customized terms, which often results in preferential treatment for such
Investors.
(D) Wrap Fee Programs. GFG does not participate in wrap fee programs.
(E) Amount of Client Assets We Manage. As of December 31, 2023, we manage
$422,558,347 of Client assets on a discretionary basis and no Client assets on a non-
discretionary basis.