Northern Pacific Growth Investment Advisors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
and a registered investment adviser (the “Adviser”), and its affiliated investment adviser provides
investment advisory services to investment funds privately offered to qualified investors in the
United States and elsewhere. The Adviser commenced operations in June 2014.
The Adviser’s clients include the following (each, a “Fund,” and together with any future
private investment fund to which the Adviser or its affiliates provide investment advisory services,
the “Funds”):
• Northern Pacific Growth Foundation Partners, L.P. (“NPGFP”);
• Northern Pacific Growth Investment Partners, L.P. (“NPGIP”); and
• Northern Pacific Investment Partners, L.P. (“NPIP” and, together with NPGFP
and NPGIP, “Fund I”).
The following general partner entity is affiliated with the Adviser:
• Northern Pacific Group GP I, LLC (the “General Partner” and together with the
Adviser and their affiliated entities, “NPGIA”).
The General Partner is subject to the Advisers Act pursuant to the Adviser’s registration in
accordance with SEC guidance. This Brochure also describes the business practices of the General
Partner, which operates as a single advisory business together with NPGIA.
Northern Pacific Group, L.P. (“NPG”) and its affiliated general partners, Lake Street
Partners GP, L.P. and Northern Pacific Group GP II, L.P. (together with NPG and Lake Street
Partners GP, L.P., the “NPG Advisers”), are also affiliated with NPGIA.
NPG is a separately registered investment adviser and management company, and each of
the other NPG Advisers is subject to the Advisers Act pursuant to NPG’s registration in accordance
with SEC guidance. NPGIA has an arrangement with the NPG Advisers pursuant to which NPGIA
provides employees and back office services to, and shares office space with, the NPG Advisers.
NPGIA and the NPG Advisers are not under common control, but are operated as a single
investment advisory firm.
The Funds are private equity funds and invest through negotiated transactions in operating
entities, generally referred to herein as “portfolio companies.” NPGIA’s investment advisory
services to the Funds consist of identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, negotiating
the terms of investments, managing and monitoring investments and achieving dispositions for
such investments. Although investments are made predominantly in non-public companies,
investments in public companies are permitted. From time to time, where such investments consist
of portfolio companies, the senior principals or other personnel of NPGIA or its affiliates generally
serve on such portfolio companies’ respective boards of directors or otherwise act to influence
control over management of portfolio companies in which the Funds have invested.
NPGIA’s advisory services to the Funds are detailed in the relevant private placement
memoranda or other offering documents (each, a “Memorandum”), limited partnership or other
operating agreements or governing documents of the Funds (each, a “Partnership Agreement”
and, as applicable, together with any relevant Memorandum, the “Governing Documents”), and
are further described below under “Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.”
Investors in the Funds (generally referred to herein as “investors” or “limited partners”) participate
in the overall investment program for the applicable Fund, but in certain circumstances are excused
from a particular investment due to legal, regulatory or other agreed-upon circumstances pursuant
to the Governing Documents; for the avoidance of doubt, such arrangements generally do not and
will not create an adviser-client relationship between NPGIA and any investor. The Funds or the
General Partner generally enter into side letters or other similar agreements (“Side Letters”) with
certain investors that have the effect of establishing rights under, or altering or supplementing the
terms (including economic or other terms) of, the Governing Documents with respect to such
investors.
Additionally, from time to time and as permitted by the Governing Documents, the Adviser
expects to provide (or agree to provide) co-investment opportunities (including the opportunity to
participate in co-invest vehicles) to certain investors or other persons, including other sponsors,
market participants, finders, consultants (including Third Party Consultants (as defined below))
and other service providers, NPGIA’s personnel and/or certain other persons associated with
NPGIA and/or its affiliates. Such co-investments typically involve investment and disposal of
interests in the applicable portfolio company at the same time and on the same terms as the Fund
making the investment. However, from time to time, for strategic and other reasons, a co-investor
or co-invest vehicle (including a co-investing Fund) purchases a portion of an investment from
one or more Funds after such Funds have consummated their investment in the portfolio company
(also known as a post-closing sell-down or transfer), which generally will have been funded
through Fund investor capital contributions and/or the use of a Fund credit facility. Any such
purchase from a Fund by a co-investor or co-invest vehicle generally occurs shortly after the
Fund’s completion of the investment to avoid any changes in valuation of the investment, but in
certain instances could be well after the Fund’s initial purchase; provided that, with respect to
investments by Lake Street Partners, L.P. (“Lake Street”), which is an investment fund sponsored
by NPG, into existing portfolio companies owned by Fund I, such transactions generally will be
completed at the then-current fair market value, as determined by NPGIA and NPG, and approved
by the advisory board of Fund I (and, thus, will be made on terms different than those received
with respect to the initial investment by Fund I). Where appropriate, and in NPGIA’s sole
discretion, NPGIA reserves the right to charge interest on the purchase to the co-investor or co-
invest vehicle (or otherwise equitably adjust the purchase price under certain conditions), and to
seek reimbursement to the relevant Fund for related costs. However, to the extent such amounts
are not so charged or reimbursed, they generally will be borne by the relevant Fund.
As of December 31, 2023, NPGIA, together with the NPG Advisers, managed
$162,600,664 in client assets on a discretionary basis. NPGIA is controlled by Jeff Greiner, Scott
Honour, and Peter Offenhauser (together, the “Principals”).