A. Describe your advisory firm, including how long you have been in business. Identify your
principal owner(s).
Hollyport obtained authorization from the Financial Services Authority, being the predecessor to the
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, in 2006 under the name Newgate CSP Capital LLP, its name being
changed to Hollyport Capital LLP in June 2009. We are an SEC registered investment adviser (filing
as an ERA in August 2017, and full registration in September 2023).
The business is fully owned and managed by Partners John Carter, Edward Gay, and Steven Nicholls,
all of whom sit on the Investment Committee. John, Edward and Steven have worked closely together
within the Partnership for the last four funds. Richard Grindrod and Michael Catts became Partners
in 2022, and James Jupp, Catherine Badour, and Mei Chan became Partners in 2023; all are minority
owners of the Firm and sit on the Firm’s Management Committee. For more information about
Hollyport Capital, LLPs ownership information, please see Form ADV Part 1, Schedule A.
Currently, only the Hollyport Secondary Opportunities Funds VI – VIII and the Hollyport Secondary
Overage Fund contain U.S. investors. For more information about the Funds with U.S. investors we
manage, please see Form ADV Part 1, Schedule D, Section 7.B.(1).
B. Describe the types of advisory services you offer. If you hold yourself out as specializing
in a particular type of advisory service, such as financial planning, quantitative analysis,
or market timing, explain the nature of that service in greater detail. If you provide
investment advice only with respect to limited types of investments, explain the type of
investment advice you offer, and disclose that your advice is limited to those types of
investments.
Founded in 2006, Hollyport has raised and invested eight private equity secondary funds in the period
from 2007 to 2021, comprising Hollyport I to VIII and Prism (the “Hollyport Funds”). Across all of
these funds, Hollyport has maintained a consistent focus on acquiring legacy private equity assets in
the secondary market. Hollyport acquires portfolios of mature private equity funds from large
institutional investors for whom the value of the remaining assets in these funds has become de
minimis. Such vendors are typically focused on a clean, efficient solution for an entire portfolio of
fund interests, and Hollyport has established a reputation as a trusted counterparty in such
transactions. As a result of such acquisitions, Hollyport has relationships with over 625 GPs, and seeks
to work with these GPs to provide complex secondary solutions for their existing legacy fund interests.
This
can include tender offers to other investors, fund restructurings and continuation funds. Through
the acquisition of assets across both traditional LP portfolios and complex secondary transactions and
associated application of strict concentration limits, Hollyport constructs portfolios of assets highly
diversified by sector, geography and investment strategy.
Hollyport’s advisory services are set forth in the offering and governing documents for the Funds, but
generally include identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, and managing and monitoring
investments. Hollyport manages the Funds’ investments on a discretionary basis, meaning investors
in the Fund participate in the overall investment program of the applicable Fund and cannot direct
such investments.
C. Explain whether (and, if so, how) you tailor your advisory services to the individual needs
of clients. Explain whether clients may impose restrictions on investing in certain
securities or types of securities.
The advisory services provided to our Funds are typically not specifically tailored to the individual
needs of investors in the Funds; the investment advice and authority for each Fund are tailored to the
investment objectives of that Fund. These objectives are described in the private placement
memorandum, limited partnership agreement, investment advisory agreement, side letters and other
governing documents of the relevant Fund (collectively, the “governing documents”).
Fund investors can typically only impose restrictions through side letters. Most investors in the Funds
participate in the overall investment program for the applicable Fund.
The Funds reserve the right to enter into “side letters” or similar agreements with investors. The
agreements may grant the investor certain rights, benefits or privileges that are not available to other
investors, or generally available. This is a conflict of interest. We will upon the request of a regulator
of relevant authority make side letters available.
D. If you participate in wrap fee programs by providing portfolio management services, (1)
describe the differences, if any, between how you manage wrap fee accounts and how you
manage other accounts, and (2) explain that you receive a portion of the wrap fee for your
services.
We do not participate in any wrap fee programs.
E. If you manage client assets, disclose the amount of client assets you manage on a
discretionary basis and the amount of client assets you manage on a non-discretionary
basis. Disclose the date “as of” which you calculated the amounts.
As of June 30, 2023, we had $3,156,004,230 in regulatory assets under management, all of which is
managed on a discretionary basis.