Hampton Reid is a boutique search firm placing investment professionals across asset-based finance, specialty finance, and private credit — partnering with managers building teams in New York, Chicago, Boston, and London.
We go deepest in asset-based and specialty finance. Private equity sits alongside it as a secondary practice, drawing on the same networks and the same standards.
ABF has moved from the margins to the center of private credit, and the talent market hasn't caught up. We treat it as a primary specialism — not a line item under “credit” — so we understand the distinctions that matter when you hire: asset-based lending versus finance, borrowing-base mechanics, and how underwriting and structuring talent maps across sub-asset classes.
Explore our ABF practice →Lower-middle and mid-market managers across buyout and growth equity — focused on the associate-to-VP layer where deal experience and fit have to line up.
Hampton Reid is deliberately small and deeply specialized. The person mapping your market is the person who runs your search and briefs your candidates — no handoffs, no juniors learning on your mandate.
We've chosen to go deep in asset-based and specialty finance rather than wide across every corner of financial services, because in a market this nuanced, depth is what actually shortens a search.
We understand the mandate before we start, so the shortlist is short for the right reasons.
Every conversation — client and candidate — handled with the care a small market demands.
If a search is hard, we'll tell you why. If a role isn't right for a candidate, we'll tell them too.
Whether you're hiring into a specialty finance platform or thinking carefully about where you take your career next, the first conversation is the same: honest, specific, and no obligation.