Senior Legal Lead

Requirements

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
• Minimum of 6–8 years’ post-call experience.
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
• Strong commercial legal drafting, negotiation and advisory experience.
• Strong understanding of Nigerian and African commercial law, corporate law, contract fundamentals, technology contracting and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
• Experience advising on commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent legal issues, product or technology matters, data protection clauses, vendor risk and business expansion.
• Good generalist legal range across commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance, dispute support, employment-adjacent legal issues and legal risk management.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured, documented output and strong SLA discipline.
• Experience working with or managing external counsel.
• Strong written communication, sound judgement under pressure and the ability to explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers.
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal and governance environment.

Advantageous:

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, lending automation, financial technology, SaaS or regulated technology businesses.
• Experience supporting Board-facing, investor-facing or regulator-facing legal matters.
• LLM, compliance, governance, technology law, data protection or financial services qualification.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded lawyer who can move between detail and judgement quickly. They are precise with documents, practical with advice, disciplined with timelines, and mature enough to know when a matter can be resolved at Legal level and when it must be escalated. They must be comfortable operating in a growing function where structure is being deliberately built and where legal support must enable speed without compromising defensibility.

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