Ely Place

July 2025: Ely Place Partners achieved a significant milestone by becoming directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enhancing its regulatory standing in the UK financial services market.

June 2025: The firm participated in SuperReturn 2025, one of the private equity industry's premier global conferences, strengthening its market presence and network.

Q1-Q2 2025: Team members delivered presentations at multiple industry events, including SuperReturn Secondaries Europe (Adrian Lopez de Armentia, March 2025), Infrastructure Investor Global Forum (Francois Bouillon, March 2025), Guernsey Fund Launch Briefing (Daniel Roddick, February 2025), and the Private Credit Investor Forum (Daniel Roddick, February 2025).

May 2025: Founder Daniel Roddick was featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing credit secondaries and chaired the PDI Europe Summit, demonstrating the firm's thought leadership position in the evolving secondary market.

The firm continues to publish insights on private credit secondaries and the broader secondary market, with publications in October 2025 and July 2025 highlighting market trends and the mainstreaming of credit secondaries as an asset class.

Daniel Roddick, Founder: Daniel Roddick founded Ely Place Partners in 2018, bringing deep expertise in private equity placement and secondary advisory.

Under his leadership, the firm has established itself as an independent specialist in alternative assets advisory.

Roddick is an active thought leader in the secondaries market, particularly in private credit secondaries.

In May 2025, he chaired the PDI Europe Summit and was featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing credit secondaries.

He has also spoken at prominent industry events including the Guernsey Fund Launch Briefing in February 2025 and the Private Credit Investor Forum.

Adrian Lopez de Armentia: Adrian serves as a senior advisor and spoke at SuperReturn Secondaries Europe in March 2025, representing the firm's expertise in secondary market transactions.

Francois Bouillon: Francois specializes in infrastructure investments and represented Ely Place Partners at the Infrastructure Investor Global Forum in March 2025, highlighting the firm's capabilities in infrastructure fundraising and advisory.

Ely Place Partners Limited is a specialist adviser in alternative assets, established to serve as one of the leading placement agents in private equity, credit, infrastructure, and venture capital.

Founded in 2018 by Daniel Roddick, the firm operates as an independent advisory specialist focusing on secondary transactions and capital raising for alternative asset managers.

The firm provides comprehensive advisory services across three core business lines: secondary advisory, placement, and GP advisory. Ely Place Partners specializes in advising on complex transactions where the objectives and sensitivities of managers, buyers, and sellers all need to be delicately managed.

Their multi-lingual team has established strong coverage of major institutional investors and niche investors across global markets.

Registered in England and Wales under company number 11427265, with offices at 7 Pancras Square in London, Ely Place Partners became directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in July 2025.

The firm has built a reputation for handling sophisticated secondary market transactions and providing strategic fundraising guidance to alternative asset fund managers navigating increasingly complex market conditions.

Ely Place Partners delivers three distinct service lines tailored to the alternative assets industry:

Secondary Advisory

The firm advises General Partners (GPs) in the restructuring of funds, establishing continuation vehicles, and raising co-investment capital.

For Limited Partners (LPs), Ely Place provides guidance on the sale of fund portfolios and near-term liquidity solutions.

The team specializes in complex transactions requiring careful management of the competing objectives and sensitivities of managers, buyers, and sellers simultaneously.

Placement Services

Ely Place conducts fundraising campaigns for private equity, credit, infrastructure, and venture capital GP funds, as well as co-investment opportunities.

The firm's multi-lingual team maintains strong relationships with major institutional investors and niche investors globally, enabling broad market coverage across geographies and investor types.

GP Advisory

The firm provides specialist advice on fundraising planning and LP engagement, including fundraising strategy development, due diligence support, and intra-fund investor relations.

These services can be delivered as part of comprehensive placement mandates or as standalone offerings to complement existing placement agents or internal investor relations teams.

GP advisory encompasses pre-fundraising marketing, documentation and presentation planning, closing tactics, and ongoing investor relationship management.

Ely Place Partners has developed particular expertise in the private credit secondaries market, an emerging segment of the alternative assets landscape.

The firm has published thought leadership on private credit secondaries, including insights on how this market has gone mainstream.

Their October 2025 publication "Private Credit Secondaries go Mainstream" and July 2025 piece "The Rise and Rise of the Secondary Market" demonstrate the firm's forward-looking perspective on market evolution.

The firm specializes in navigating complex secondary transactions across multiple alternative asset classes including private equity, credit, infrastructure, and venture capital.

Their approach emphasizes understanding the nuanced objectives of all transaction parties—managers, buyers, and sellers—particularly in situations requiring sensitive handling of competing interests.

This expertise positions Ely Place Partners as a trusted adviser for sophisticated institutional investors and fund managers seeking liquidity solutions or strategic restructuring alternatives.