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30 July 2026, 11:59 PM WAT (Expired)
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Job Description
Job Descriptions
- Develop litigation strategy from pre-action assessment through judgment, appeal, settlement, and enforcement.
- Lead banking, fintech, commercial, regulatory, and financial crime litigation.
- Manage complex fraud, unauthorized transactions, chargeback, and asset recovery matters.
- Lead responses to injunctions, garnishee orders, subpoenas, freezing orders and preservation orders.
- Review and challenge defective court orders where legally appropriate.
- Represent the company before regulators, including CBN, EFCC, NFIU, FCCPC and law-enforcement agencies.
- Coordinate internal investigations involving fraud, AML, sanctions and financial crime.
- Manage external law firms, litigation budgets and legal strategy across jurisdictions.
- Advise executive management on legal risk, crisis response and sensitive matters.
- Establish litigation governance, reporting, KPIs and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Requirments
- LL.B and admission to practice in Nigeria. LL.M preferred.
- Minimum 10 years post-qualification experience.
- At least 5 years leading litigation for banks, fintechs or regulated financial institutions.
- Extensive commercial litigation, banking litigation and regulatory enforcement experience.
- Experience drafting pleadings, affidavits, witness statements and legal submissions.
- Strong courtroom strategy, negotiation and advocacy skills.
- Experience managing high-value disputes (preferably NGN 1 billion+).
- Experience supervising external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
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