DLA Piper announced that Adam Tope has joined the firm’s finance practice as a partner in the New York office. Tope is a fund formation attorney who represents hedge, PE, infrastructure, venture capital and real estate fund sponsors and managers, as well as secondaries firms, middle market managers and startup managers/spinouts. For additional commentary from Tope, see “Affiliate Versus Third Party Debate and Other Topics in Transfer Right Provision Negotiations” (Jul. 16, 2019); and our three-part series: “How Omitted Inputs and Deferred Carry Can Inflate IRR Calculations” (Sep. 10, 2019); “How Fund Management Practices Affect IRR Figures” (Sep. 17, 2019); and “How Curated Past Performance Results Can Produce Misleading IRRs” (Sep. 24, 2019).