Senior Legal Consultants – Interim, Fractional, & Project-Based Opportunities in City of London

Help ambitious businesses build, scale, and navigate change. Altern8 Legal was built around a belief that ambitious businesses should be able to access exceptional senior legal expertise flexibly, while experienced lawyers should have greater ownership over how, where, and with whom they work.

We provide flexible, high-calibre legal support to private equity and venture capital-backed businesses, founder-led scale-ups, and established organisations experiencing periods of growth, transformation, or increased legal demand. We believe that legal should not be viewed as a back-office function. Our consultants work as genuine business partners to founders, boards, and senior leadership teams - combining technical excellence with commercial judgement to help businesses make decisions, navigate change, and grow.

We value the full breadth of experience developed over a legal career: not just technical expertise, but the skills you don’t learn from a textbook - the judgement gained from working in different environments, the ability to influence, and the interpersonal skills that help a business achieve its goals.

We are expanding our curated network of senior lawyers interested in interim, fractional, and project-based consulting engagements. We are particularly interested in commercially minded lawyers who enjoy working closely with founders, boards, investors, and senior leadership teams - and who can quickly understand a business, establish trusted relationships, and take ownership of important legal challenges.

Typical engagements may include:

• Acting as interim or fractional General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, or senior legal counsel
• Establishing a company’s first legal function, or developing an existing function as the business scales
• Supporting founders and leadership teams through rapid growth, fundraising, or international expansion
• Providing strategic legal support to high-growth PE or VC-backed portfolio companies
• Leading complex commercial negotiations, major customer or supplier contracts, and strategic partnerships
• Supporting acquisitions, disposals, integrations, investments, or exit-readiness
• Strengthening governance, risk management, compliance, and legal operating processes
• Providing specialist expertise during a transaction, transformation, remediation programme, or period of unusually high demand

We would particularly like to hear from lawyers who:

• Have operated at a senior level within an in-house legal team, leading law firm, or consulting environment
• Understand the pace, ambiguity, and commercial pressures associated with scaling or investor-backed businesses
• Are comfortable working directly with founders, executives, boards, and other senior stakeholders
• Can combine strong legal judgement with a practical, solutions-oriented approach
• Are able to integrate quickly, work autonomously, and deliver meaningful outcomes from the outset

Relevant backgrounds may include General Counsel and legal leadership, commercial and technology, corporate and M&A, financial services and regulation, data and privacy, intellectual property, employment, disputes, compliance, transformation, and other specialist areas.

You may already be an established legal consultant, be developing a portfolio career, or be considering moving from an in-house or private practice role into more flexible consulting work.

Becoming an Altern8 consultant offers:

• Access to sophisticated, commercially significant engagements where your work will have a tangible impact
• Opportunities to work closely with ambitious businesses and senior decision-makers
• Greater flexibility and autonomy over the work you undertake
• The ability to apply your experience in varied and entrepreneurial environments
• Careful matching based on your expertise, availability, and preferred working style
• Ongoing support and open communication from the Altern8 team throughout each engagement

With Altern8, you retain ownership over how you work and the engagements you undertake - adding meaningful value to exciting businesses in a way that suits you. This advert represents our continuing search for exceptional consultants rather than one specific assignment. The location, duration, working pattern, and scope of each engagement will vary according to the client’s requirements.

Our consultant network is non-exclusive, so you remain free to undertake work elsewhere, subject to your availability, existing commitments, and any applicable conflicts of interest. If this sounds like the kind of work you would enjoy, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile.