Legal Associate
We are looking to hire a highly skilled Legal Associate with 2-4 years of experience. A successful candidate will play a vital role in providing comprehensive legal support and assistance to our Head of Legal on a broad spectrum of legal matters. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in legal research, drafting contracts, appeals, and other legal documents, and delivering sound legal counsel. Furthermore, the ideal candidate should exemplify unwavering reliability and integrity while consistently delivering exceptional work, even in high-pressure situations.
- Draft, review, and refine legal documents—including contracts, agreements, internal policies, memoranda, and correspondence ensuring accuracy and full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Monitor securities and payments regulatory environments across all operating markets and advise on implications for products and operations.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver pragmatic, solutions-driven legal advice on new features, services, and technical implementations.
- Support market-entry legal workstreams, including regulatory analysis, entity formation, and preparation of materials for licensing applications.
- Assist with corporate secretarial tasks, maintain governance standards, and manage core corporate documentation.
- Advise on data protection and privacy laws (e.g., NDPR, GDPR) as they relate to products, users, and internal processes.
- Conduct thorough legal research on statutes, regulations, and emerging issues, delivering clear and concise analyses for decision-making.
- Track developments in local, federal, and international laws affecting Bamboo’s operations, guiding stakeholders to ensure ongoing compliance and proactive risk management.
- Maintain an organized system for legal records and produce reports, summaries, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage the contract lifecycle by tracking key dates, milestones, and obligations, and coordinating with teams to ensure timely and accurate execution.
- Participate in the negotiation and execution of agreements, offering commercial and legally sound recommendations.
- Provide general legal support to internal teams, address inquiries as they arise, and collaborate with external counsel when appropriate.
- Demonstrate strong understanding or interest in financial-services law, including securities, payments, AML/CFT, and data privacy, combined with a commercial, pragmatic mindset.
- Communicate complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers, while managing multiple projects with strong organization and attention to detail.
- Department
- Legal
- Locations
- Nigeria
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Bamboo
Bamboo is a digital investment platform that gives customers direct, real-time access to US dollar fixed-income investments and US-listed stocks and ETFs right from their personal devices. Bamboo’s vision to empower every African with the resources they need to build wealth from the ground up is built on the belief that we can democratize access to a stream of wealth creation instruments, global investment opportunities for retail and institutional investors across Africa and foreign markets