Empowering Recruitment
Entrepreneurs to Lead the Market

Strategic capital and proven expertise to overcome your growth challenges.

About Our Recruitment Focus

Growing a recruitment business brings big opportunities — and real challenges.

From finding top talent to scaling ops and managing costs, you need more than clients to grow — you need the right support behind you.

At Hamilton Bradshaw, we bring deep industry insight, hands-on experience, and smart capital to help you scale with structure, maintain quality, and lead with confidence.

We know recruitment — and we back founders who are serious about building something exceptional.

How We Help You and Your Business

Case Studies

Joshua Robert

Josh Roberts is a specialist recruitment firm providing permanent and executive search solutions in property, construction, facilities management and social housing. With deep expertise in talent acquisition, the firm partners with high-growth businesses to deliver strategic hiring across legal, finance, and commercial functions.

Joshua Robert

Joshua Robert

Darwin Hawkins

Darwin Hawkins is a specialist recruitment consultancy focused exclusively on the Accounting & Finance sector. Established in 2018 by chartered accountants Niall O’Kelly and Mark Baker, the firm combines technical financial expertise with deep recruitment insight to deliver exceptional talent solutions to a diverse client base.

Darwin Hawkins

Darwin Hawkins

Beaumont Bailey

Established in 2019 with offices in London and New York, Beaumont Bailey is a highly specialised search partner to industrial and manufacturing organisations that are transforming the future of the built environment.

Beaumont Bailey

Beaumont Bailey

Meraki Talent

Meraki Talent is a recruitment and selection business founded in 2015 which focused on serving the hiring needs of employers in the Financial Services, Professional Services and Industry & Commerce sectors in the UK and Internationally.

Meraki Talent

Meraki Talent

Venatrix

Venatrix is Europe’s No 1 SaaS sales talent partner, placing sales and business development professionals in the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies.

Venatrix

Venatrix

IGA Talent Solutions

Leeds-based, IGA Talent Solutions, was founded in 2018 and is now operating across three sites in the UK and Switzerland. The IGA team are true specialists in their chosen sectors, covering insurance, actuarial, investments, technology and change & transformation.

IGA Talent Solutions

IGA Talent Solutions

Alexander Mann Solutions

James launched his first recruitment venture in 1987, targeting niche markets with growth potential, which he grew to a multinational group with revenues of £130m, and 160 staff across 30 offices in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. James sold his interest in Alexander Mann Solutions to Advent International in 2002. Alexander Mann Solutions was most recently sold to OMERS for US$1 billion.

Alexander Mann Solutions

Alexander Mann Solutions

Humana International

In 1993, James co-founded the executive headhunting firm Humana International. Within 6 years, James and the Humana team were generating £50m of revenues, with 147 offices in 30 countries; with profits doubling year on year, the business quickly established itself and was included in the Virgin Fast Track 100 fastest growing UK companies. The success and geographical breadth of Humana attracted overseas interest, with a sale completed in 1999 to CDI Corp (the parent company of the recruitment giant MRI), giving significant return on the original investment.

Humana International

Humana International

nGAGE (formerly Human Capital Investment Group)

HCIG started in 2008 with an investment in Eden Brown, creating the platform for growth; over a period of 6 years to 2015, the platform completed two acquisitions and launched 9 start-ups. At the point of sale, CIG’s investment portfolio comprised 7 JVs and 3 existing businesses, generating £50m recruitment net fee income. The platform was sold to Graphite Capital, the London-based private equity firm, in 2014. Post the acquisition, the business was rebranded as nGAGE, and continues to do very well today.

nGAGE (formerly Human Capital Investment Group)

nGAGE (formerly Human Capital Investment Group)

VIDA

VIDA focuses in recruitment in sectors with innovation with technology in their core. VIDA’s clients represent some of the most exciting start-ups and scale-ups that are disrupting the status quo and innovating to create new markets and value networks in life sciences and disruptive technologies globally.

VIDA

VIDA

Recruitment Entrepreneur

Market leading provider in recruitment business funding and investment, supporting start-ups and established business that are looking to scale. RE partners with and empower budding entrepreneurs to build world-class recruitment businesses, capable of achieving a high equity value on exit. Since 2014, RE has invested in more than 32 talented founders, enabling them to launch and scale successfully.

Recruitment Entrepreneur

Recruitment Entrepreneur

Adamsons & Partners

With a brand established for over 35 years, Adamson & Partners is recognised as a market leader in its sector, operating in Executive Search, recruitment and M&A transactions for IP and Legal. The team are headquartered in London with a second office in Munich. With a long standing, loyal and impressive blue chip client base the majority of the assignments are across Europe with a growing activity in the US.

Adamsons & Partners

Adamsons & Partners

Damicor

Founded in 2022, Damicor is a specialist recruitment partner providing tailored workforce solutions in Airport Construction, Engineering, and Supply Chain sectors.

Damicor

Damicor

GKR International

A specialist recruitment firm focusing on the property sector, providing tailored staffing solutions across residential and commercial real estate.

GKR International

GKR International

SF Recruitment

UK-based specialist recruiter across finance, technology, and executive sectors, providing tailored recruitment services.

SF Recruitment

SF Recruitment

Walter James

Walter James, co-founded in 2015, quickly became a leader in recruitment, specialising in consumer/retail, life sciences, and chemical sectors. In December 2021, US-based ZRG acquired Walter James, enhancing ZRG’s global talent advisory capabilities.

Walter James

Walter James

Ignata Finance

Launched in 2017, Ignata Finance is a leading executive search & finance recruitment business. US-based ZRG acquired Ignata Finance in March 2024, enhancing ZRG’s global talent advisory capabilities.

Ignata Finance

Ignata Finance

Our Approach

Our approach is tailored to your unique business challenges. Here’s how we work together:

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Proposal Submission

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Initial Consultation

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Tailored Investment and Support

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Realising the Value You’ve Built

The outcome? You scale faster, lead your market, and exit on your terms — with a partner who’s been there before.

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