PalmPay is an Africa-focused fintech firm, launched in 2019. PalmPay is a mobile payments platform that offers a number of financial services.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Legal Manager – Financial Litigation & Regulatory Disputes
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Legal
Reports To: Head of Legal
Role Purpose
- The Senior Legal Manager – Financial Litigation & Regulatory Disputes will lead PalmPay's litigation, regulatory investigation and complex dispute portfolio across Africa.
- This role is responsible for litigation strategy, financial crime recovery, court proceedings, regulatory engagement, external counsel management, and executive legal advisory.
- The successful candidate must be an experienced financial litigation lawyer capable of independently leading high-value, high-profile disputes while protecting the Company's commercial, regulatory and reputational interests.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
KPIs
- Litigation success rate
- Financial recovery value
- Regulatory response timeliness
- Court-order compliance
- Reduction in litigation exposure
- External counsel performance
- Legal budget management
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Experience:
- Financial crime and fraud recovery
- Asset tracing and civil recovery
- Cross-border litigation
- International arbitration
- White-collar crime
- Regulatory investigations
- Digital payments and fintech
Leadership Competencies:
- Strategic thinking
- Commercial judgement
- Crisis management
- Executive communication
- Stakeholder management
- Decision-making under pressure
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- We are seeking a commercially minded financial litigation lawyer with deep banking or fintech experience, capable of independently leading complex litigation, regulatory investigations, external counsel and high-profile disputes involving regulators, courts and law-enforcement agencies.
What PalmPay Offers
- Regional leadership exposure across Africa.
- Opportunity to build a best-in-class litigation function.
- Competitive compensation and performance incentives.
- Career progression to Director/Head of Litigation.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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