Job Description
Department Legal Role Legal Intern Locations Nigeria Remote status Hybrid
Job Scope
We are seeking a motivated Legal Intern to support the Legal & Compliance team. This role is designed for a recently qualified lawyer or early-career legal professional seeking practical, hands-on experience within a fast-growing fintech environment. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Legal, and wider business teams, providing legal, regulatory, and operational support across the Company’s activities.
This role offers strong exposure to in-house legal work, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional collaboration, with structured guidance and on-the-job learning.
This role is based in Lagos, Nigeria and requires you to come into the office two times a week.
What you will be doing:
- Support the Legal & Compliance team with the day-to-day running of legal operations, assisting with the drafting, review, formatting, filing, and organisation of contracts, NDAs, internal policies, memoranda, and other legal documents—learning how in-house legal teams actually work in practice.
- Carry out legal and regulatory research across relevant areas of law and turn your findings into clear, practical summaries, briefing notes, trackers, and checklists that help the business stay compliant and move quickly.
- Help monitor regulatory developments across securities, payments, and the wider fintech ecosystem by collating updates, maintaining regulatory trackers, and supporting internal compliance awareness.
- Get hands-on exposure to corporate governance and company secretarial work by supporting Board and committee processes, including statutory registers, resolutions, approvals, meeting packs, and action logs.
- Work closely with teams across the business (product, operations, finance, and compliance) to gather information, documents, and approvals needed for legal reviews, regulatory filings, audits, and compliance projects.
- Assist in preparing internal reports, presentations, summaries, and updates for stakeholders, learning how complex legal and regulatory issues are communicated clearly to non-lawyers.
- Provide general legal operations support to the Legal & Compliance team, including tracking tasks, following up on action items, updating dashboards and trackers, and helping keep legal workflows organised and running smoothly.
- Take part in ad-hoc projects and learning opportunities, gaining exposure to fintech regulation, licensing, compliance operations, and cross-border legal work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Competence Requirements
- Qualified to practice law in Nigeria
- Strong legal research and writing skills.
- Good attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Basic understanding of, or strong interest in, financial services, fintech, or regulatory compliance.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and follow instructions carefully.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
About You
- A proactive self-starter with a strong willingness to learn and grow.
- Someone with a positive, “can-do” attitude who takes ownership of assigned tasks.
- A team player who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and open to feedback.
- Strong interest in building a long-term career in in-house legal, fintech, or regulatory work.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to be challenged.
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
Required Skills
WritingCommunicationResearchOrganizational SkillsAttention to Detail
About the Company
Bamboo
Financial Services / FinTech
51 - 250 Founded 2019
Bamboo is an investment platform that gives Africans the tools to build wealth from the ground up through real-time access to the global markets.
We offer easy, secure, and reliable access to above-inflation returns.
Around the world, investing is a trusted and sustainable path to building long-lasting wealth. But unfortunately, in Africa, investing is making the majority poorer because they are limited to local capital markets that are volatile and currency returns that are negatively-adjusted by inflation and devaluation. Worst still, most Africans are not investing because they don‘t know how to invest or what to invest in.
We have solved for that and built an online brokerage service that give Africans real-time access to global investment options. We have spent a few years building a completely frictionless, insights-driven, and unrestricted investing experience for everyone irrespective of your geographical location, income level or financial education.
Our technology provides both retail investors and institutions real-time access to the US Stock market, other global capital markets and investment products that provide real, inflation-adjusted returns.
We offer easy, secure, and reliable access to above-inflation returns.
Around the world, investing is a trusted and sustainable path to building long-lasting wealth. But unfortunately, in Africa, investing is making the majority poorer because they are limited to local capital markets that are volatile and currency returns that are negatively-adjusted by inflation and devaluation. Worst still, most Africans are not investing because they don‘t know how to invest or what to invest in.
We have solved for that and built an online brokerage service that give Africans real-time access to global investment options. We have spent a few years building a completely frictionless, insights-driven, and unrestricted investing experience for everyone irrespective of your geographical location, income level or financial education.
Our technology provides both retail investors and institutions real-time access to the US Stock market, other global capital markets and investment products that provide real, inflation-adjusted returns.
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Company
Bamboo
Financial Services / FinTech
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