Everyone has different needs at different stages of their legal career. Whatever your experience, ambitions and goals, we’ll give you all the support you need to take your consultancy career where you want it to go. More evolved and established than ever before, legal consulting has never been more exciting and, at Peerpoint, we are ahead of the game.
Progressive careers for lawyers of the future
Peerpoint is Allen & Overy’s global platform for self-directed consultant lawyers who want to access the best work, clients, resources and bespoke support, while working on assignments of typically six months or more, either within Allen & Overy practice groups or directly with clients as legal consultants.
For lawyers, the benefits of legal consulting are wide ranging. More variety. More opportunity. More flexibility and balance.
You might want more control over your time to balance professional and personal ambitions. Whether that’s pursuing a passion, hobby, business idea or studies, spending more time with your family, or taking breaks between assignments to travel the world. Legal consulting allows you to continue progressing and developing as a lawyer, without putting the rest of your life on hold.
Or you might want more choice and control over, or variety in, your work. As a Peerpoint consultant, you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the best assignments in a wide range of sectors and, through this variety, deepen your expertise. With an expanded skillset, you gain a competitive edge, either for a continued career as a legal consultant or to be able to move towards your goal of a certain type of permanent role in the future.
Traditional legal careers have offered a limited picture of success, defined as making it to either partnership or a general counsel position. But now, legal consulting is an established legal career that empowers you to define what success means to you and steer your career in whichever direction you choose.
A world of support and opportunities
A career with Peerpoint is unmatched in the legal consultancy market. Not only have we helped lead the transformation of legal consulting; we’ve developed one of the most supportive offerings around, all with the backing of a globally renowned magic circle law firm. With this comes access to the highest-level work, clients, resources and support, from both Peerpoint and Allen & Overy.
When you join our panel, you’ll receive the full support of our dedicated engagement and consultant management teams, who work with you to understand your skillset, experience, motivations, and goals so that we can match you to the right opportunities.
Throughout, we support your choices and mentor you, to keep you heading in the direction you want to pursue and offer the experience you need to propel your career forward. When you’re on an assignment with us, you’ll also have access to a suite of A&O resources, including:
- an A&O partner contact
- A&O professional support lawyers and knowledge resources
- client newsletters and seminars
- invitations to A&O networks and pro bono opportunities
- bespoke Peerpoint support such as individualised coaching, exclusive events designed to meet your training and networking needs, a specialised consultant development programme on transition management, mindset and business planning and specialised CV/marketing document training
- opportunities to grow your skillset with A&O’s Advanced Delivery businesses.
As a Peerpoint legal consultant, you’re never on your own; instead, you’re part of a community of like-minded lawyers who have all chosen the self-directed route, and are keen to share their experiences and learn from one another.
A law career unmatched in quality and variety
There is a wide diversity of top-tier clients and work available to you. Client assignments can range from stepping into a team to work on major transactions, legal projects, or to assist during peak busy periods. You may also have the opportunity to work within A&O on an ad-hoc basis, supporting teams when needed or joining them for fixed periods to work on a deal.
We only invite lawyers to join our panel when we’re confident that there will be a sufficient volume of suitable roles for your area of expertise, your level of experience and your role preferences.
The type of demand we see for consulting lawyers varies according to our clients’ needs, as well as the jurisdictions we operate in. The practice areas that we typically resource for include:
- capital markets (derivatives and structured finance, debt capital markets, equity capital markets and securitisation)
- banking and finance (particularly general lending and leveraged finance)
- financial services regulation
- banking disputes and investigations
- corporate M&A
- commercial law (including technology and data privacy)
- employment law.
As a global business, we have consultants working in Australia, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States, and have opportunities for lawyers who want to gain international experience, subject to right to work requirements, within the regions we operate.
Put your law career in the fast lane this year and reach your goals with us.
Make your move.
Download our regional candidate brochures below for further detail. If you are interested in finding out more about the opportunities we’re currently recruiting for, or to apply to join our panel, visit here.
Meet the consultants.
Learn about their experience as a legal consultant.
Amrik Tumber
Capital markets and debt finance lawyer
Sydney
Amrik Tumber
“Peerpoint engenders a huge amount of respect for what lawyers are trying to achieve in their personal and professional lives, and that’s really refreshing to see.”
Specialising in M&A, capital markets and debt financing law by day, I’m also at the start of an acting career, which places me in rather a unique position. It was this, in fact, that prompted my joining of the Peerpoint panel in April 2017.
Peerpoint has a sophisticated set-up and provided a viable way for me not only to take periods of time off between assignments to focus on my acting, but also to pursue both careers simultaneously. Peerpoint is solutions-focused, facilitating the needs of the client assignment, while encouraging the professional and personal ambitions of the consultant. There has been total transparency around my commitments, and I’ve found Peerpoint and the clients to be both receptive of, and interested in, my acting work.
As lawyers we tend to be risk-averse, yet taking the step into consultancy can provide so much freedom and opportunity. It’s exciting working for different clients and learning about their organisations in a way in which you may not within a permanent role. It provides an opportunity to not only expand your business and legal network but also to leverage from Allen & Overy’s contacts and relationships. A&O also has an impressive international network, meaning they are well placed to support foreign lawyers in their relocation plans, or in gaining international exposure.
Peerpoint engenders a huge amount of respect for what lawyers are trying to achieve in their personal and professional lives, and that’s really refreshing to see.
Caroline de Basto
Banking and finance lawyer
London
Caroline de Basto
“I had a family, but I still wanted high-profile, technically challenging work.”
I left Allen & Overy when my family moved abroad, but I was still interested in working. When we moved back to the UK, I was keen to work but I knew I wouldn't be able to work in the same way I used to; the long hours in the office no longer suited me. So, I turned to consultancy.
I wanted quality, high-profile, technically challenging work. With Peerpoint I can make a positive choice to take on an assignment. I support the banking team at A&O, either in the office or from home, around four or five hours a day when the children are at school. When they're on holiday, I am too. Our clients are international – I can work from the office or from home, and still fully support the client.
The London LMA market is well developed and you need to stay on top of the market. What I'm doing now keeps me up to speed. If I want to develop my career further, I still can. At one point I thought I'd have to give up my career; now I can take it from here.
Anup Mehta
Banking lawyer
London
Anup Mehta
I have a rule when it comes to my career: every six months I reassess my top priorities, write them down and commit to them.
I have a rule when it comes to my career: every six months I reassess my top priorities, write them down and commit to them. At the start of my career, the focus was on salary and becoming a partner. Five years after qualifying, I began to re-examine what I wanted to do.
That’s where Peerpoint came in. I read about someone on the panel who is an artist and uses Peerpoint to supplement his artistic work. It really struck a chord with me, so I joined. Having more control gave me the chance to re-visit my childhood dreams: boxing and stage acting. A bigger one though was my interest in business. Peerpoint allowed me to explore that, to the point where I’ve launched my second social impact startup, 30 Minute Chat
Peerpoint hasn’t just enabled me this opportunity, it’s been the perfect partner every step of the way. The team worked very hard to find assignments that match my own criteria to the point where, when I first joined, I received three offers all in line with what I was looking for. That’s what surprised me the most: many of their clients are actively looking for lawyers at an earlier stage in their career, like me.
Tiffany Lee
Litigation and financial regulation lawyer
Hong Kong
Tiffany Lee
“Peerpoint offers excellent resources, such as in-house seminars, know-how and events, as well as opportunities to network among the consultants.”
A solicitor specialising in litigation and financial regulation, I trained and worked in private practice in Hong Kong for nine years, before moving in-house to work for an investment bank. While I enjoyed my work as a lawyer, I sought more variety over the type of work I chose to do, and wanted more control over my working hours.
Since joining Peerpoint, I have worked as a professional support lawyer supporting the Allen & Overy Hong Kong litigation team, on contentious financial regulatory investigations within the Hong Kong office, and in the financial crime compliance team of a global investment bank. Peerpoint works with high-calibre, international clients, which gives me access to challenging, top-tier work. It also presents opportunities for me to work outside of litigation and investigations.
Peerpoint offers excellent resources, such as in-house seminars, know-how and events, as well as opportunities to network among the consultants. For me, consulting with Peerpoint has given me a greater work-life balance, and has enabled me to pursue my Japanese language studies. With a more flexible working structure, I have also had more time to travel and explore Japanese culture, which has provided me with a really valuable opportunity that most likely would not have been possible within a permanent role.