Hampton Reid works with private equity and private credit firms across the US on investment professional hiring at the Associate through Vice President level. Our focus is on lower and mid-market managers, emerging and established funds outside the large-cap PE universe, and credit platforms where specialist underwriting expertise is at a premium.
We take a hands-on approach to each search, investing time upfront to understand the firm’s strategy, portfolio, and team before going to market. That groundwork is what allows us to move quickly and present candidates who are genuinely relevant — not a long list of long shots.
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As a newly launched fund, we did not have a fully defined template for the senior role we were looking to hire. Hampton Reid spent time upfront helping us shape the remit, calibrate seniority, and understand how comparable teams were structured across the market. Their market mapping was thoughtful and precise, and the resulting shortlist was exceptionally strong. All candidates were highly relevant, and well-briefed. The process was efficient, consultative, and added real value at a critical stage of our build-out.
If you are looking to hire for your investment team or exploring your next move in private equity or private credit, we would welcome a conversation.
For private equity mandates, we focus on firms where the investment team is small enough that every hire genuinely matters. That means working closely with hiring managers to calibrate seniority, understand deal flow and sector focus, and ensure that candidates are well-briefed and genuinely motivated before any introduction is made.
On the credit side, we work across a range of strategies from direct lending platforms building out origination and underwriting capacity, to specialty finance and asset-based lenders requiring more niche technical profiles. We are equally comfortable placing a generalist direct lending Associate as we are identifying a candidate with specific ABF or insurance-linked experience.