Our Story
Our Philosophy
At GPFS our philosophy is to ensure that ethics and transparency drive everything, that simplicity and nuance are mutually respected, and that employees come first.
We look to partner with clients that value our philosophy and the way we separate ourselves. Our clients collaborate with us as a back office partner who helps them deliver their own promise of reliable transparent reporting.
Our Culture
Our culture challenges traditional views of financial service organizations because our focus is on our people. GPFS employees are truly a team. We train together, we work hard together, we celebrate our wins together and we learn from our challenges together.
Being the best fund administrator means having the best employees. To accomplish this, employees are our focus and our culture rewards employee success. Being a successful employee at GPFS means you embrace our philosophy, drive to excellence, and are motivated by exceeding client expectations.
Our History
GPFS was founded in 2011 to offer Private Equity firms back office solutions that strike the right balance between technological efficiencies and white glove service. The management team has over 50 years of combined experience and GPFS’s founder has been providing customized back office solutions to a range of private equity firms since 2001.
In the past decade the industry’s demand for reliable, highly competent and extremely collaborative service providers has grown exponentially. From our beginning, GPFS has committed to be a unique leader in delivering on those demands.
Merging technology and service to deliver white glove back office solutions for private equity firms.
Our Solutions
Private Equity Funds
We have focus at GPFS. Delivering services exclusively to private equity firms allows us to hone our skills and be the best possible partner with our clients. We provide services to a range of clients operating across various private equity specialties, such as:
Buyout
Buyout clients can range in size and strategy. Our Buyout clients highly value our expertise in partnership agreement nuance and structural complexity.
Venture Capital
Clients operate at every spectrum of the Venture Capital discipline. In addition to complexity, our skills that manage investment tempo and volume help us deliver great service.
Growth Equity
Having a passion for growth businesses, our clients operate in a range of transactions and we adapt to meet their needs.
Co-Invest / SPV
Managers of Co-Invest Funds will benefit from our experience working with a variety of fund types across several industries. Managers of Special Purpose Vehicles can customize solutions based on that vehicles reporting needs.
Real Assets
Complex fund structures, joint ventures and co-investments are handled by our highly experienced Real Assets Team and industry-leading technology. Our staff has worked at many of the top Real Estate Fund Managers and brings that wealth of hands-on experience to their client service roles.
Fund of Fund
Fund of Funds investing into Private Equity products will value our broad experience across the Private Equity industry. We appreciate the unique high-paced demands of Fund of Fund products.
Client Operations
Our Private Equity clients have their own internal back office needs that require GPFS’s unique solutions.
Management Company
We have a dedicated team of professionals who specialize in accounting and reporting for Management Companies. For clients who want to have the synergy of a dedicated in-house team and the economies of outsourcing, GPFS offers an under-one-roof solution.
General Partner
General Partner and other internal fund related entities require economical but tailored offerings. Our fund administration clients can customize their General Partner Accounting and Reporting services.
Our Services
We package all of our services with client partnership in mind. As your ally, we deliver services under strict procedures and controls. GPFS is proud to have consistently received a clean SSAE 16 SOC I Type II report since 2013.
Fund Launch
Fund Launch
We help clients build a strong back office foundation.
Accounting
Accounting
We use the best in class software to maintain highly detailed transactional and investor data.
Carried Interest Calculations
Carried Interest Calculations
We aren’t intimidated by complicated, meticulous calculations. We make sure it’s done right.
Capital Call & Distribution Processing
Capital Call & Distribution Processing
We collaborate on letter content, perform calculations, and deliver documents securely and electronically.
Financial Reporting
Financial Reporting
We quarterback the annual and quarterly reporting to ensure clients are meeting and exceeding investor expectations.
Treasury
Treasury
We provide a range of reporting and transactional support to clients’ treasury demands.
Investor Communications
Investor Communications
We work closely with clients to uphold their commitment to provide reliable transparent reporting.
Regulatory Reporting
Regulatory Reporting
We provide a range of support to client’s regulatory responsibilities such as Form PF, OFAC, ADV and other governmental demands.
CFO
CFO
We package and deliver our services to include consulting at every turn, an approach unique to GPFS.Our Team
Our culture is centered on our employees. Committed to team development, cooperation, respect and most importantly morale, we avoid the service provider pitfall of high turnover.
News
GP Fund Solutions Receives Its 2020 System and Organization Controls (SOC 1), Type II Compliance Report
New York, April 19, 2021 - GP Fund Solutions (“GPFS”) is proud to announce the successful completion of its System and Organization Controls (SOC 1), Type II Compliance Report issued by an independent international auditing firm. The overall scope of the 2020 SOC 1, Type II Report covers GPFS’s operations that provide fund administration and related investor relations services to our clients. The unqualified report ... continue »
Private Investment Advisors Have Options: Co-sourcing Administration
The co-sourcing fund administration model has received a lot of press recently, but at GP Fund Solutions, LLC (GPFS) we have been implementing this model since our launch in 2011. The founders of GPFS have experience co-sourcing since the early 2000’s when the back offices for private investment advisors were initially being institutionalized. Clients seeking to co-source choose GPFS due to our deep experience in ... continue »
