Mubadala has agreed a significant minority investment in Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee alongside existing controlling shareholder Centurium Capital in a transaction with an aggregate value of approximately $1bn.
Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds has approved $750m of new private-market commitments, splitting the capital between Fortress Investment Group's latest lending strategy and an IFM infrastructure vehicle.
Apogem Capital has reached the hard cap for its eleventh lower-middle-market private equity vehicle, collecting $597m including commitments from the manager's own employees.
Pinegrove Venture Partners has closed its 12th Strategic Investors Fund on $1.5bn, securing an oversubscribed raise for its venture fund-of-funds and co-investment strategy despite a difficult environment for VC fundraising.
Healthcare specialist ARCHIMED has more than doubled the size of its small-cap flagship strategy after closing MED IV at its €1.5bn hard cap, following demand for roughly three times the available capacity.
EIG has nearly doubled the size of its senior infrastructure debt fund series with a $1.9bn final close for its sixth vehicle, taking total capital raised across the strategy's latest fundraising to $4bn.
CEECAT Capital has reached a €135m first close for its third Emerging Europe-focused private equity fund after securing €80m of combined commitments from the European Investment Fund and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Silver Lake is combining French software holdings Cegid and Silae to create a European business-management software group valued at more than €10bn, according to the Financial Times and Reuters.
New York investment firm Luma Group has closed its debut life-sciences venture fund on $410m, in the wake of securing its first portfolio-company exit through Eli Lilly’s acquisition of Vaccine Company.
Stablecoin major Tether and private-credit manager Fasanara Capital have committed $400m to launch an evergreen lending fund that aims to attract as much as $3bn from third-party institutional investors.