Senior Legal Manager - Financial Litigation Regulatory Disputes

PalmPay is hiring a Senior Legal Manager – Financial Litigation & Regulatory Disputes to lead high-stakes litigation, regulatory investigations, and dispute resolution across Africa.

What it 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

Who can apply

• 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

What you'll do

• 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

How to apply

Use the link below to apply on the company website: Senior Legal Manager – Financial Litigation & Regulatory Disputes