Description of Firm
Virtera Partners LLC is a registered investment adviser based in Pepper Pike, Ohio providing investment
advisory services since August 2020. The Firm is primarily owned by the Adelman Family Investment Company
LLC and Chaya Slain. As used in this Brochure, the words "we," "our," and "us" refer to Virtera Partners
LLC and the words "you," "your," and "client" refer to you as either a client or prospective client of our firm.
Investment Advisory Services – Family Office and Separately Managed Account Clients
We provide high-quality, independent investment advice to a select group of ultra-high net worth families and
charitable organizations to preserve and growth their wealth. We provide confidential, customized advice to you
based on your family’s specific situation. We work with you to gain a comprehensive understanding of your
financial situation, such as your financial goals, investment objectives, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs. Based
on this understanding, we assist you in constructing, monitoring, and maintaining an investment portfolio that is
suitable for your situation. We also work with your estate planning attorneys, accountants or other professionals
to incorporate estate planning and taxes into your investment plan.
Our value proposition is to help you understand the “big picture” of your investment portfolio so that we can
position it in a way we believe we can best achieve your family’s specific goals. Every family is different, so we
construct each portfolio fully tailored to your situation. We only work with a select group of families to ensure
that we can provide a customized, high-touch experience to every client.
We specialize in constructing portfolios that are diversified across asset classes and include allocations to
alternative investments, such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities. We are
completely independent from other financial service organizations and look at each opportunity in your best
interest. We leverage our wide network of relationships, and apply a rigorous, disciplined, and transparent
diligence process to identify what we believe to be best-in-class investment managers and strategies that will
provide the appropriate exposures for your portfolio. We may invest or recommend that you invest in a variety of
investments, such as public securities, bonds, exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), mutual funds, and pooled
investment vehicles. We may also use one or more third-party money managers (“sub-advisers”) to manage a
portion of your portfolio. We will regularly monitor the performance of your investments and recommend
changes as deemed necessary. We also provide reporting on all investments on a regular and ongoing basis.
We offer our services on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis depending on your preference. If you
participate in our discretionary investment management services, we require you to grant our firm discretionary
authority to manage your accounts. Discretionary authorization will allow us to determine the specific securities,
and the amount of securities, to be purchased or sold for your account without your approval prior to each
transaction. It will also allow us to hire and fire any sub-adviser without your prior approval. If you enter into
non-discretionary arrangements with our firm, we will obtain your approval prior to executing any transaction on
behalf of your account, or before hiring or firing any sub-adviser. You have an unrestricted right to decline to
implement any advice provided by our firm on a non-discretionary basis.
Evaluations and Recommendations of Investment Managers
Depending on the nature of its engagement with each client, the Firm evaluates and/or recommends to clients the
investment advisory services of unaffiliated investment managers (including pooled investment vehicles
managed, sponsored or established by such unaffiliated investment managers). These investment managers are
independent of the Firm and are evaluated by the Firm. The investment managers recommended by the Firm to
each client are selected based on various factors and considerations deemed by the Firm to be relevant or
appropriate in its sole discretion including, among other things, the investment objectives and risk tolerance of
the client as well as the past performance of the manager. Subject to the arrangements with each client, the Firm
actively involves such client in the evaluation process with respect to third-party investment managers.
Initial Evaluation and/or Due Diligence – Prior to recommending or referring a new investment manager
(including managers to private funds) to manage client assets, the Firm conducts due diligence through
telephonic and/or in-person meetings with such investment manager personnel and the review of key documents
and information relating to such manager. This typically includes both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of
the manager, with a focus on areas such as investment objectives and strategy, historical performance and risk,
fees and expenses, transparency and reporting, background and continuity of key personnel, regulatory &
disciplinary history, safety of client assets, and evaluation of gatekeepers and service providers, among other
areas, as the Firm deems necessary or appropriate. The initial evaluation and/or due diligence process will vary
depending upon the facts and circumstances of each situation (including the nature of the client relationship and
the nature of the specific investment manager that is being reviewed). For example, fewer due diligence
procedures may be warranted in situations where the Firm has a long-standing relationship with an investment
manager.
The Firm conducts a more limited review when simply evaluating a third-party investment manager or
investment opportunity
at the specific request of a client. Limited reviews may include one or more of the focus
areas listed above, but the Firm generally will rely on information provided by the manager or sponsor of the
investment (or the client).
Types of Investments
We typically offer advice on ETFs, mutual funds, public equities, and alternative investments including, but not
limited to private placements, hedge funds, private equity, real estate, oil and gas, venture capital, and other
business opportunities. Additionally, we may advise you on various types of investments based on your stated
goals and objectives. Since our investment strategies and advice are based on each client’s specific financial
situation, the investment advice we provide to you will be different and could conflict with the advice we give to
other clients regarding the same security or investment.
Affiliated Pooled Investment Vehicles (“Funds”)
The Firm serves as investment manager to affiliated pooled investment vehicles (each a “Fund” and collectively
“the Funds”) with respect to investments in securities, financial instruments and other assets, including co-
investments alongside third-party investment managers and other persons and/or investments in pooled
investment vehicles managed, sponsored and operated by third-party investment managers. The Firm, or an
affiliate of the Firm, serves or acts as general partner, manager or in similar capacity with respect to the Funds
and the Firm serves as investment manager with respect to the Funds. Interests in a Fund are suitable only for
sophisticated investors (i) that do not require immediate liquidity for their investments; (ii) for which an
investment in the Fund does not constitute a complete investment program; (iii) that fully understand and are
willing to assume the risks involved in the Fund’s investment program; and (iv) that are (A) “accredited
investors” under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and when a
performance allocation is assessed, each investor must also be a “qualified purchaser,” as that term is defined in
the rules of the securities laws.
The Firm and certain of its affiliates establish and utilize the Funds for investment purposes on behalf of its
clients and other investors, including to facilitate indirect investments by one or more of its advisory clients in
pooled investment. The Firm regularly recommends that certain of its advisory clients invest in the Funds, if and
to the extent the Firm deems investments in one or more of the Funds to be suitable and appropriate for such
clients. The recommendation of investments in the Funds to the Firm’s advisory clients involves one or more
actual or potential conflicts of interest. See Item 10.
Certain Funds are established for the purpose of investing substantially all of their assets in a single pooled
investment vehicle managed or sponsored by a third-party (an “underlying fund”) (to facilitate indirect
investments in such underlying funds by advisory clients and other persons). Any such Fund may be referred to
in this brochure as an “SPV”. Interests in the Funds will be offered and made available to applicable advisory
clients of the Firm (subject to suitability and eligibility determinations and requirements), but interests in the
Funds may also be offered or made available to other investors and entities (including non-advisory clients) in the
sole discretion of the Firm.
A private placement memorandum or a similar offering document with respect to each Fund is provided or made
available to prospective investors in a Fund, which includes various disclosures and information regarding the
Fund, the investment objective and strategies of the Fund and other matters. Prospective investors should review
the information and disclosures set forth in the applicable offering documents of a Fund for detailed information
regarding such Fund are qualified in their entirety by the information in such offering documents.
Each Fund is managed in accordance with the investment objectives, policies, strategies, guidelines and
limitations set forth in the applicable private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreement and other
governing documents of such Fund. An SPV pursues substantially the same investment objective and strategies
as the underlying fund in which it was formed to invest. Investors are not permitted to impose restrictions or
limitations on the management or operations of a Fund. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the general partner of a
Fund may in the future enter into side letter agreements or similar arrangements with one or more investor in a
Fund that have the effect of establishing rights under, or altering, modifying, waiving or supplementing the terms
of, the documents of the governing Fund in respect of such investors. Among other things, these agreements may
entitle an investor in a Fund to lower fees, information or transparency rights, most favored nations status,
notification rights, rights or terms necessary or advisable in light of particular legal, regulatory or public policy
considerations of or related to an investor and/or other preferential rights and terms. Any rights established or any
terms of the governing documents of such applicable Fund altered or supplemented in or by a side letter or
similar arrangement with an investor will govern solely with respect to such investor notwithstanding any other
provision of the governing documents of such applicable Fund related thereto.
Wrap Fee Programs
We do not participate in any wrap fee program.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, we provide continuous management services for approximately $710 million in assets
under management.