The Legal Intelligence Your Company Needs

Nyanhemwa Law is an Ontario boutique firm providing fractional General Counsel services to tech companies, AI builders, fintechs, and regulated businesses navigating complex legal terrain. We think like business partners. We work like your inhouse team.

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AI Governance
Privacy
Regulated Industries
Fractional General Counsel

The Gap

You’re building something ambitious. Your legal situation shouldn’t be a liability.

Most growing tech companies exist in a legal no man’s land.

You’ve outgrown the startup lawyer who did your incorporation. You’re not ready — or can’t afford — a full-time General Counsel at $300,000+ a year. So you rely on outside counsel who bills by the hour, doesn’t know your business, and isn’t there when decisions need to be made in real time.

That gap is expensive. Not just in legal fees. In bad contracts signed. In compliance gaps discovered too late. In regulatory exposure that surfaces during due diligence. In deals thatfall apart because your legal house wasn’t in order.

Nyanhemwa Law was built to close that gap.

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What We Do

Senior legal counsel. Embedded in your business.

We serve as your fractional General Counsel — a senior legal partner who knows your company, your industry, your risk profile, and your growth goals. On retainer. Available when you need us. Thinking about your business 365 days a year.

Not a call center. Not a document factory. A strategic legal mind at the table where decisions get made.

  • We help AI companies and AI-adopting businesses build governance frameworks, navigate Canada’s evolving regulatory landscape, and stay ahead of OSFI, Bill C-27/AIDA, and international frameworks including the EU AI Act.

  • PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, PHIPA, cross-border data transfers, vendor data agreements — we turn privacy compliance from a cost center into a competitive advantage.

  • Fintech, insurtech, healthtech, and lending platforms operate under extraordinary legal complexity. We bring deep regulatory fluency so you can move fast without moving recklessly.

Who We Serve

Fintech & AI Startups

From your first institutional raise to your Series B — we protect your company at every inflection point. Fundraising docs, commercial contracts, regulatory positioning, IP strategy. We’ve been inside the banks and regulators that will scrutinize your business. We know what they look for.

Regulated Tech Companies

If your product touches financial data, health data, or government systems, your legal exposure is not standard. We provide ongoing counsel purpose-built for companies operating in regulated environments — so compliance becomes infrastructure, not a fire drill.

Scale-Ups Preparing for M&A or IPO

Legal due diligence has killed deals that should have closed. We work with growth-stage companies to get their legal foundation board-ready, investor-ready, and acquirer-ready — before the process starts.

CEOs & Boards Navigating AI Adoption

If your company is deploying AI in any capacity — in your product, in your operations, in your customer-facing systems — you have governance obligations you may not fully see yet. We help leadership teams understand and manage that exposure, proactively.

Why Nyanhemwa Law

We don’t just know the law. We know the business you’re building.

  • Built from the inside out. Our practice is grounded in direct experience advising on AI governance and compliance within Canada’s most heavily regulated industry: banking and financial services. We know what institutional-grade legal rigor looks like — and we bring it to companies that are disrupting those institutions.

  • Strategic, not transactional. Hourly billing creates a perverse incentive: complexity is profitable. Our retainer model aligns us with your success. We answer the phone. We’re in the room. We tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.

  • Niche expertise in the fastest-moving legal space in Canada. AI regulation, privacy modernization, and fintech oversight are evolving faster than any other area of Canadian law. This is not a sideline practice for us. It is the practice. Our clients don’t need to catch us up — we’re already ahead.

We work on retainer — a fixed monthly fee that gives your company consistent, senior-level legal counsel without the unpredictability of hourly billing. Three tiers. Clear scope. No ambiguity.
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Predictable legal coverage. No surprise invoices.

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    Before founding Nyanhemwa Law, our principal counsel worked at the intersection of AI, compliance, and financial services — advising on the very governance frameworks that now shape how regulators evaluate AI-powered companies across Canada. That experience doesn’t just inform our legal advice. It defines it.

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