Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC (San Francisco)


Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC is a large advisory firm based in San Francisco. It manages $56.62 billion of regulatory assets for 69 client accounts. It has been registered with the SEC as an adviser since 2015 and has operated in the jurisdictions of California, Illinois, and Texas.

Vista Equity Partners Management provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles. It doesn't provide financial planning services to its clients. On top of advisory services, the firm doesn't engage in other business activities.

Vista Equity Partners Management: assets under management

The assets under management (AUM) of Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC is $56.62 billion. The firm's AUM has grown by 259% since the beginning of its operation, and $38.41 billion of the total AUM is attributable to clients outside of the United States.

The firm manages $56.3 billion in discretionary accounts and $322.51 million in non-discretionary accounts. On average, the discretionary accounts where all decisions are made on behalf of the client hold $840.23 million each. Non-discretionary accounts, where clients actively manage their portfolios, generally hold around $161.25 million.
Vista Equity Partners Management has custody of $56.62 billion in cash and securities for 69 clients in total but doesn’t act as a qualified custodian.

Fees & Commissions

The advisory firm has several streams of revenue. Clients pay Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC for their services and products based on a percentage of assets under management and performance-based fees. The adviser charges an additional fee when a set benchmark is outperformed. These fees don’t include brokerage commissions, interest, taxes, and other account expenses.

What kind of clients Brian N Sheth serves?

The only and largest group of clients of Brian N Sheth is pooled investment vehicles with 69 clients and $56.62 billion of assets under management. Among the 8 most similar advisory firms, Vista Equity Partners Management has the highest percentage of pooled investment vehicles out of all clients.

The amount of regulatory assets under management is $56.62 billion for 69 clients. 42% of the firm’s clients are foreign persons or businesses.

Vista Equity Partners Management also advises several private funds. Namely, eight hedge funds and fifty six private equity funds. The minimum investment commitment required of non-related persons ranges from $0 to $10,000,000.

Careers at Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC

The company employs 248 people that are either part- or full-time employees. 48 percent of the employees work as investment advisers or researchers. No employees are registered as investment adviser representatives with the state securities authorities.

There isn’t anyone with the role of looking for and bringing in new clients on behalf of the firm. The firm doesn’t compensate employees in addition to the salary for bringing in new clients. Employees don’t receive compensation from other entities for client referrals.

Brian N Sheth has been acting as President since 1 Oct 2010. Llc Vista Equity Partners Management joined the executive team most recently as the Limited Partner Of Veef Management, L.P..

Direct owners and executive officers


Name Entity Date acquired Ownership Employer ID
John Richard Warnken Brill Chief financial officer 1 Sep 2006 Other 2921307
Robert Frederick Smith Chairman and chief executive officer 1 Oct 2010 Other 2529114
Brian N Sheth President 1 Oct 2010 Other 2983993
Christina Silvia Lema General counsel 1 Feb 2012 Other 6175509
Gwen Gorham Reinke Chief compliance officer 1 Jan 2015 Other 1554503
James Morrill Ford President of credit and public equity 1 Feb 2015 Other 3106067
David Andrew Breach Chief operating officer and chief legal officer 1 Apr 2015 Other 6441280
Llc Vista Equity Partners Management Limited partner of vepf management, l.p. 1 Apr 2015 75% - 100% 156973
Llc Vep Group General partner of vepf management, l.p. 1 Apr 2015 Other xxx-xx-xxxx
L.P. Vista Holdings Group Member 1 Jul 2015 75% - 100% 47-3882725
Llc Vep Group Senior managing member 1 Jul 2015 Other xxx-xx-xxxx
Llc Vista Equity Partners Management Limited partner of veef management, l.p. 1 Mar 2017 75% - 100% 156973
Llc Vep Group General partner of veef management, l.p. 1 Mar 2017 Other xxx-xx-xxxx

Indirect Owners

The SEC currently registers 2 indirect owners.

Name Entity Date acquired Ownership Employer ID
Robert Frederick Smith Limited partner of vista holdings group, l.p. 1 Jul 2015 50% - 75% 2529114
Brian N Sheth Limited partner of vista holdings group, l.p. 1 Jul 2015 25% - 50% 2983993

Based in San Francisco

The principal office where Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC performs its advisory services is located at Four Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, which is also the mailing address of the firm. An additional office of the firm is in Austin, TX. It doesn’t run an office outside of the United States.

You can reach the main office by calling the phone number 415-765-6500 or by fax 415-765-6666. The normal business hours are 8:00am cst to 5:00pm pst on Monday - Friday. You can find more information about the New York firm at vistacreditopportunities.com.