ECLIPSE NEWLAW - Key Persons


Christine Du Toit

Job Titles:
  • ELM & Legal Ops Consultant
Christine was a tri-vector practicing attorney, notary and conveyancer with a broad commercial and property focused practice. Christine has always been driven to deliver legal services in an innovative and cost effective way, which has led her to Africa NewLaw and ELM consulting. As a consultant, Christine is driven to deliver efficient and effective ELM & legal operations services to our clients, ensuring implementation of the Africa NewLaw solutions across all services and technologies.

Greg van Rensburg

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant With Extensive Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Finance SME
Greg is a highly experienced chartered accountant with extensive Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Risk Management and Financial Optimisation exposure. He has executed numerous commercial and restructuring transactions across a broad range of sectors.

Leonie Ellis

Job Titles:
  • People and Talent Management
Leonie has been responsible for getting many lawyers in South-Africa their preferred jobs, with over 17 years experience in legal and compliance recruitment. She has worked with most of the large organisations in the financial sectors and most of the law firms in South-Africa. Leonie will be assisting Africa NewLaw clients with ensuring that they have the right talent for the job.

Rian Hancock - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Director
Rian is a highly experienced lawyer and legal operations expert. Prior to starting Africa NewLaw, Rian was responsible for the delivery of Legal Management Consulting services at Deloitte and Head of LPO Delivery in South-Africa for Integreon. Before commencing his legal operations journey, Rian practised as an Advocate for 7 years and is currently a non-practising attorney.

Ryan Pretirajh

Job Titles:
  • Internal Audit and Combined Assurance SME
Ryan has extensive Internal Audit experience. He has gained local and international exposure to Governance, Risk & Compliance activities across various industries. His experience includes starting up and leading an Internal Audit department from strategy development and methodology alignment to ensuring stakeholder value. He has have successfully improved the reputation, quality of output and service offerings during his last Internal Audit role, through innovative initiatives, application of technology and staff development, which has resulted in greater stakeholder value and satisfaction. He has been involved in successfully developing and implementing combined assurance frameworks at various organisations through his career He is a solutions driven team player, with a key focus on building partnerships and taking stakeholders on a collaborative journey.

Sivenkosi Maqhula

Sivenkosi Maqhula is passionate about disrupting the current Legal Status Quo using innovation. He is excited about joining Africa NewLaw because he believes that the future of legal services delivery is digital, human-centred and will prioritize customers.

Zach Joubert

Job Titles:
  • Legal and Technology
Zach is a highly experienced legal practitioner and is currently practising as a Member of The Cape Bar. Zach is unique in that he is a fully qualified computer scientist with work experience with some of the largest platforms. Zach assists with the development and implementation of the unique Africa NewLaw solutions.