Rian Hancock
Managing Director · GRC Operations & Strategy SME
MBA. LLB. Attorney.

Our story
Built by practitioners. For practitioners.
Africa NewLaw was founded by compliance and legal operations professionals who spent years inside the organisations we now advise. We know what it feels like to face a regulatory examination without the right programme behind you.
Our mission
We partner with organisations to design, optimise and digitise their compliance and legal operations ecosystems, delivering measurable risk reduction, operational efficiency and regulatory confidence through expert advisory and world-class technology.
We hold ourselves to the same standards we advise our clients to uphold.
Regulatory work demands exactness. We deliver nothing less.
We are extensions of our clients' teams, not transient vendors.
Our team
We bring first-hand regulatory, technology and commercial experience to every engagement. Africa NewLaw is supported by a team of expert consultants to ensure that the right expertise is leveraged when needed.
Managing Director · GRC Operations & Strategy SME
MBA. LLB. Attorney.
Head of Operations · Compliance frameworks · POPIA · FICA
LLB. Attorney. Notary. Conveyancer.
25+
Regulations covered
BBBEE 4
Contributor level
3
Service pillars
2019
Founded
How we think
Too many compliance and legal functions are maintained rather than transformed. We come in with a mandate to redesign, not just review. Every Africa NewLaw engagement produces measurable operational change, not a report that collects dust.
Africa NewLaw is registered as a BBBEE Level 4 contributor under the B-BBEE Act 53 of 2003. We are committed to meaningful transformation in the compliance and legal professional services sector.
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