Verified Person Inc., a New York-based provider of background screening and identity verification services, has raised around $5.5 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Rho Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. www.verifiedperson.com
Mochi Media, a San Francisco-based online gaming ad network, has raised an undisclosed amount of first-round funding led by Accel Partners, according to GigaOm. www.mochimedia.com
SemGroup Energy Partners LP, a Tulsa, Okla.-based , raised $275 million in its IPO. The company sold 12.5 million common units at $22 per unit ($19-$21 range), and ended its first day of trading up at $29.32 per unit. It is trading on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol SGLP, while Citi and Merrill Lynch served […]
Behrman Capital has sold WIL Research Holdings Co. to an undisclosed financial sponsor for $500 million. WIL is an interdisciplinary non-clinical contract research organizations, providing product safety and toxicological assessment research and services primarily to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and agricultural industries. Behrman says that the deal generated 3.6x cash-on-cash return, and a 63% IRR. […]
Castanea Partners and Dorset Capital have sold Portland, Ore.-based children's apparel company Hanna Andersson to Kellwood Co. (NYSE: KWD) for approximately $175 million. Castaena led www.hannaandersson.com
EV Energy Partners (Nasdaq: EVEP) has agreed to acquire oil and gas properties in the Permian basin from Plantation Petroleum Holdings III, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments. The deal is valued at $160 million, and is expected to close by September. www.encapinvestments.com
Bessemer Venture Partners has closed its seventh fund with more than $1 billion in capital commitments. This includes $350 million earmarked for India, and the firm has added four members to its India team: Anil Sarin (former co-head of equities at Prudential ICICI Asset Management), Sridar Iyengar (former chairman and CEO of KPMG India), Mandeep […]
Velocity Financial Group, a recently-formed specialty finance company based in Chicago, has opened a satellite office in Wakefield, Mass. The shop will focus on serving venture-backed companies in the Boston area, and will be run by Velocity president and co-founder Jan Haas. www.velocityfg.com
Windjammer Capital Investors has promoted both Matthew Anderson and Caleb Clark to senior associate. The firm also has hired Chris Allen as an associate. Anderson joined Windjammer in October 2005 from GE Corporate Finance, while Clark joined in June 2006 after receiving his MBA from Columbia. Allen just received his MBA from Harvard, and before […]
Steven Becker has joined Hunton & Williams LLP as a New York-based partner within the firm's asset securitization practice group and capital markets team. He previously was with Thacher Proffitt & Wood, as a member of its structured finance and corporate and financial institutions practice group. www.hunton.com