Domain Capital Group and its subsidiary Domain Capital Advisors have closed more than $700 million in equity commitments for an entertainment fund and co-investment vehicle focused on film, television and music, with an allocation for other related investment opportunities.  To date, the fund has deployed more than $170 million across the three media. The fund follows the company’s successful deployment of an $830 million separate account launched in 2012, which focused primarily on film and television assets. DCA manages entertainment investments for corporate and public state pensions, insurance companies, university endowments, and multi-family offices, among others. DCA’s media and entertainment

Wafra Inc has raised $1.5 billion for its fourth flagship fund which will look to acquire minority stakes in alternative asset managers, including private equity firms, according to a report by Reuters.

Unigestion, an independent, specialist asset manager, has held the first close of the Unigestion Direct III (UD III) Fund, its third direct private equity fund at €200 million. The fund targets a portfolio of global, innovative mid-market companies whose growth is underpinned by long-term trends, providing investors with exposure to exciting hard-to-access companies in themes uncorrelated to GDP, such as healthcare, service efficiency, future of work and sustainable cities. It has just closed its first investment in an American substance use treatment business and will be closing its second in a European pharmaceutical company in the coming weeks. The fund

Ridgemont Equity Partners (Ridgemont), a private investment firm specialising in buyout and growth investments in industry-leading middle market companies, has closed Ridgemont Equity Partners IV (REP IV) at its hard cap with $2.35 billion in capital commitments.  The fund significantly exceeded its initial target of $2.0 billion and brings the firm’s total assets under management to over $8.5 billion. REP IV extends Ridgemont’s long-standing focus as a majority owner or lead minority investor in companies across three core sectors: business and tech-enabled services, industrial growth, and healthcare. Ridgemont’s senior leadership team has worked together for more than twenty years and

Sienna Private Credit (formerly ACOFI Gestion) has reached €85 million in commitments for its F2E fund with backing from MAIF and the European Investment Fund. The F2E fund has a target of €250 million and will offer tailor-made financing solutions to support SMEs and industrial players in the Energy Transition. The fund is classified as an impact fund under article 9 of the European SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation), and also has a Greenfin label which ensures that investments effectively contribute to the financing of the energy and ecological transitions. The fund also meets the criteria promoted by Finance for

Nordic Capital has completed its largest ever fund raise, and one of the largest in Europe so far this year, with the closing of Nordic Capital Fund XI at its hard cap of €9 billion, exceeding its €8 billion target.

BlackRock Alternatives (BlackRock), through its Infrastructure business, has raised $4.5 billion in initial investor commitments for BlackRock Global Infrastructure Fund IV (Infra IV), achieving over half of its targeted size at first closing.  The fund, which invests in essential infrastructure assets globally, secured initial commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and family offices. These clients are based around the world, including from the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Over 75 per cent of the commitments in the Fund are from investors who have invested