General Counsel

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🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Quidax

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💰 $3M Initial Coin Offering - Quidax on 2021-05

Crypto • Fintech

Quidax is a crypto exchange and digital asset infrastructure platform built for Africa, enabling individuals, businesses, and institutions to buy, sell, stake, and move stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies. It provides instant swaps, order-book trading, a premium OTC desk, APIs and payment gateway (Basqet) for businesses, a stablecoin API for fiat rails, staking and yield products, a launchpad for token listings, and institutional liquidity and settlement solutions — all with a compliance-focused approach and 24/7 support.

📋 Description

• Own legal and regulatory matters at Quidax • Lead licence applications, renewals, and variations with the SEC, CBN, and other regulators • Lead legal and regulatory workstreams for new markets, including licensing, entity setup, and local counsel • Respond to new regulations for non-security virtual assets and track regulatory oversight developments • Manage sandbox applications, no-objection requests, and licensing correspondence • Track laws, regulations, and circulars and brief the business on their implications • Represent Quidax in regulatory consultations, industry associations, policy, and government engagement • Maintain a regulatory obligations register • Advise on cross-border operations and intercompany arrangements • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements • Ensure third-party arrangements meet regulatory outsourcing and partnership rules • Advise Product on compliant crypto products • Support Partnerships and Sales on deals and new business lines • Review terms of use, risk disclosures, customer communications, and marketing materials • Advise on court orders, freezing orders, garnishee proceedings, and information disclosure • Respond to requests from the EFCC, NFIU, Nigeria Police Force, courts, and foreign agencies • Manage external counsel on litigation and maintain the litigation register • Advise on chargebacks, account freezes, wrong-recipient transfers, and fraud recovery • Support escalated customer complaints • Work with Compliance on policy drafting, escalated cases, regulatory examinations, and remediation plans • Advise on Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, NDPC requirements, and data protection rules in new markets • Advise on data processing agreements, cross-border data transfers, and data subject requests • Advise on corporate structure, registry filings, statutory registers, and corporate records • Support Board governance • Work with Finance on tax compliance, transaction reporting, and tax treatment • Manage specialist tax advisers when needed • Own the legal budget and external counsel spend • Maintain contract templates, playbook, repository, and legal knowledge base • Train employees on legal and regulatory matters • Build and lead the Legal team • Report to the COO with direct access to the CEO and Board • Collaborate with Compliance, Finance, Product, Partnerships, Sales, and Customer and Merchant Success

🎯 Requirements

• Called to the Nigerian Bar • 10+ years' post-qualification experience • Significant in-house experience at a fintech, payments company, VASP, bank, or similar regulated business • Hands-on experience with licence applications across more than one African jurisdiction • Track record of hiring and managing local counsel across several markets at once • Deep commercial contracting experience with banks, payment partners, and institutional counterparties • Experience handling regulator relationships, examinations, and law enforcement requests • Solid grounding in corporate governance, entity structuring, and data protection • Clear, plain-English writing skills • Commercially sharp, with understanding of how the business makes money • Calm under pressure, high integrity, and low ego • Bonus: experience in crypto, digital assets, or blockchain • Bonus: experience with regulators in other African markets • Company secretarial qualification, e.g. ICSAN or CIS, is a bonus • Tax advisory experience is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience; annual merit-based reviews • Annual performance reviews and clear promotion cycles • Recognition for great work, including shoutouts and milestone rewards • Personal development fund for courses, books, and conferences • Study leave • Fully remote forever • Flexible working hours • Unlimited paid time off • Nigerian national holidays • Parental, sick, compassionate, and life event leave • Quarterly remote team hangouts and annual offsite • Interest-based communities (SIGs) • Regular engagement surveys • Health and life coverage in select locations • Ownership

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