Hampton Reid

Hampton Reid is a boutique executive search firm placing investment professionals across asset-based finance, specialty finance, and private credit. The company partners with managers building teams in New York, Chicago, Boston, and London, offering a deeply specialised approach to recruitment in these sectors. Hampton Reid treats asset-based finance as a primary specialism rather than a line item, understanding the distinctions that matter when hiring, including asset-based lending versus finance, borrowing-base mechanics, and how underwriting and structuring talent maps across sub-asset classes. The firm also maintains private equity as a secondary practice, drawing on the same networks and standards.

Hampton Reid specialises in several key areas within asset-based and specialty finance, including consumer finance, residential and mortgage credit, commercial real estate credit, equipment and leasing, aviation and transport, trade and receivables, royalties and intellectual property, insurance-linked securities, fund finance and NAV lending, litigation finance, and SME lending. Within private equity, the company focuses on lower-middle and mid-market managers across buyout and growth equity, with particular emphasis on the associate-to-VP layer where deal experience and fit must align precisely.

Hampton Reid is deliberately small and deeply specialised by design, operating on the principle that fewer searches run properly deliver better results than high-volume recruitment. The person mapping your market is the person who runs your search and briefs your candidates, with no handoffs or juniors learning on your mandate. The company prioritises precision over volume, discretion in every conversation, and honesty about mandate fit and candidate suitability. Clients choose Hampton Reid because depth in a nuanced market actually shortens search timelines and delivers candidates who are genuinely aligned with their requirements.