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Legal Manager
About this role
Duplo is seeking a Legal Manager in Lagos to ensure compliance with Nigerian and other target market laws and licensing requirements for its banking-as-a-service platform. The role involves drafting and negotiating contracts and legal documents, maintaining corporate records and governance, managing legal risks, and handling disputes with support from external counsel. The Legal Manager will build relationships with regulators and authorities, protect intellectual property, oversee data privacy, and advise on expansion into new markets and licensing needs. The position requires extensive experience in the fintech and payments space and a qualified Nigerian lawyer with a valid practice license. The company operates in the fintech space, offering a payments API to enable financial product launches for clients.
What you would do
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and licensing requirements in Nigeria and target markets.
- Draft, review and negotiate customer, partnership, vendor contracts and NDAs.
- Maintain corporate records and oversee company secretarial duties and governance.
- Identify, assess and mitigate legal risks related to operations, transactions and regulatory developments.
- Manage potential legal disputes and liaise with external counsel; represent the company in proceedings when needed.
- Build and maintain relationships with regulatory bodies and legal authorities.
- Protect company IP assets and oversee data privacy policies and compliance.
- Provide legal insights for expansion, including entity formation, licensing and compliance frameworks.
- Support expansion into new markets with legal considerations and structuring
What they are asking for
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or BL from a recognised institution.
- Valid Nigerian legal practising license.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant fintech/financial services experience.
- High ethical standards and integrity.
- Strong legal research, advisory and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication, advisory and negotiation abilities.
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