Spruceview Capital Partners LLC (“Spruceview”) is a multi-strategy investment management
firm that invests across a variety of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, hedge
funds, private equity, natural resources and real assets.
Spruceview began investment advisory operations in 2014 with the objective of providing
customized investment solutions to institutional investors, family offices, individuals and
other sophisticated investors. Spruceview team members have significant experience
managing portfolios across various asset classes for pension plans, endowments, foundations
and other institutions.
Richard W. Sabo, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer, and other senior
members of the Spruceview management team are responsible for managing Spruceview’s
operations as well as formulating, implementing and supervising Spruceview’s investment
strategies. Certain members of the management team also hold an ownership interest in
Spruceview’s parent company, Spruceview Capital Holdings LP, which is also partially
owned by David W. Zalaznick and JZ Capital Partners Limited, a Guernsey company that is
a closed-end fund traded on the London Stock Exchange, through its subsidiary JZBC, Inc.
Spruceview Capital Holdings LP, David W. Zalaznick, JZBC, Inc. and JZ Capital Partners
Limited are principal owners of Spruceview for purposes of this Item 4.
Spruceview provides investment management services to separately managed accounts and to
private investment vehicles (the “Spruceview Funds” or the “Funds” and, together with the
separately managed accounts, collectively referred to as “Clients”). As of December 31, 2022,
the Funds advised by Spruceview included:
Spruceview Opportunity Fund: European Income and Value, LP, a Delaware limited
partnership, and its offshore feeder fund, Spruceview Opportunity Fund: European Income and
Value OS, LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (collectively, “SOF I”), which
is no longer accepting new investors; Spruceview Opportunity Fund: U.S. Select Growth
Buyout, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and its offshore feeder fund, Spruceview
Opportunity Fund: U.S. Select Growth Buyout OS, LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited
partnership (collectively, “SOF II”);Spruceview Opportunity Fund: U.S. Growth Buyout Co-
Investment, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, its offshore feeder fund, Spruceview
Opportunity Fund: U.S. Growth Buyout Co-Investment OS, SPC, a Cayman Islands segregated
portfolio company, and its Ontario feeder fund, Spruceview Opportunity Fund: U.S. Growth
Buyout Co-Investment Ontario, LP, an Ontario limited partnership (collectively, “SOF III”);
Spruceview CERPI PE Fund 2019, LP, an Ontario limited partnership, Spruceview CERPI PE
Fund B 2019, LP, an Ontario limited partnership, Spruceview Opportunity Fund: U.S. Growth
Buyout Co-Invest Fund - Series 2 (SoCal) (“SOCAL”), Spruceview CERPI, and Spruceview
CERPI Fund 2020 (Long), LP, an Ontario limited partnership (collectively, the “Ontario
Funds”), funds constructed for investment by a Mexican trust on behalf of Mexican pension
plans; Spruceview Income Value Fund 2022 LP, a Cayman Islands exempted limited
partnership( “INCOME VALUE”), Spruceview Private Markets Fund 2022, LP, a Cayman
Islands exempted limited partnership and its feeder fund, Spruceview Private Markets
Onshore, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“PRIVATE MARKETS 2022”); and Spruceview
U.S. Growth Access Fund, LP, a Delaware limited partnership and its offshore feeder fund,
Spruceview U.S. Growth Access Fund Offshore, LP (collectively, “SOF IV”),
At the time of the filing the following Funds have been formed but currently have no assets:
Spruceview Venture Co-investment Fund, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, its offshore
feeder fund, Spruceview Venture Co-investment Fund OS SPC, a Cayman Islands segregated
portfolio company, and its Ontario feeder fund,
Spruceview Venture Co-investment Fund
Ontario, LP, an Ontario limited partnership (collectively, the “VC FUNDS”).
Spruceview may, from time to time, launch additional private investment funds in response to
the evolving needs of its business and its clients.
Spruceview invests with a long-term investment approach using strategies that are tailored to
the needs of its Clients. Investors in the Funds are not themselves Clients as a result of an
investment in any Fund alone, and the management of each Fund will not necessarily be tailored
to the needs of each individual investor within each Fund. Depending upon the Client’s
objectives, Spruceview may construct a portfolio that is diversified across asset classes in both
public and private markets, or a portfolio that is focused on particular asset classes.
Spruceview implements its investment programs by making investments in public or private
investment vehicles (“Underlying Funds”), co-investments, or accounts that invest in
securities or other assets (such investments, together with Underlying Funds and co-
investments, “Underlying Investments”) managed by unaffiliated third-party managers
(“Underlying Managers”) selected by Spruceview, as well as direct investments in securities
and other assets.
The offer and sale of limited partner interests in each Spruceview Fund (“Interests”) generally
is made to prospective investors through a confidential offering memorandum (the “Offering
Memorandum”) that is prepared for the applicable Fund and which provides information
about the Fund’s objectives, strategies, risks, structure, costs, withdrawal terms and other
matters of importance to investors. Additional information about Spruceview’s business,
history, organization and other matters addressed in this Item 4 can be found in the Offering
Memorandum and governing documents of each Spruceview Fund. Fund investors cannot
impose restrictions on the types of securities in which their Spruceview Fund may invest.
In managing separate accounts, Spruceview tailors its investment approach to each Client’s
objectives, which may include using substantially the same investment approaches as
Spruceview uses in managing one or more of the Funds. Separate accounts may be managed on
a discretionary or non-discretionary basis. Any requests for investment restrictions from
Spruceview separate account Clients are addressed on a case-by-case basis.
In addition, Spruceview offers non-discretionary investment advisory and consulting services
to institutional and family office Clients for which Spruceview has no authority or obligation
to implement or direct the implementation of its advice.
As of December 31, 2022, Spruceview managed approximately $1.9 billion of Client assets
on a discretionary basis. Spruceview has not received December 31, 2022 information
associated with certain investments in private funds held by certain Clients. As such,
Spruceview has used September 30, 2022 information with respect to the value of certain
Client accounts. Please see Form ADV Part 1, Schedule D – Miscellaneous for a more
complete description of Spruceview’s methodology in calculating the value of assets managed
on a discretionary basis. The approximately $1.9 billion of Client assets noted above does not
include approximately $120.3 million of undeployed commitments made by Mexican pension
plans investors to a Mexican trust, the bylaws of which provide for the allocation of such
commitments exclusively to any Spruceview investment vehicle (including any future Funds).
In addition, as of December 31, 2022, Spruceview had approximately $1.4 billion in additional
Client assets under advisement. Spruceview has not received December 31, 2022 information
associated with certain investments in a separately managed account held by a Client whose
assets are under advisement. As such, Spruceview has used December 31, 2021 information
with respect to the value of that Client account.