Lead Counsel

Clients and professional counterparts have described Nyaga Dominic as intellectually rigorous, an “out of the box” thinker, commercially aware and practical in his approach to complex legal and institutional problems.

Nyaga Dominic is the Lead Counsel of Nyaga Dominic & Co. Advocates. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, after which he worked at a law firm in New York focusing on commercial disputes involving financial services, business contracts, tort and intellectual property matters.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Strathmore University School of Law, where he was awarded the Chief Justice Chunilal Madan QC Laureate in recognition of exceptional contribution to constitutionalism and the rule of law.

Prior to founding the firm, Nyaga Dominic was a lawyer at TripleOKLaw LLP, a member firm of Meritas Worldwide, where he supported advisory work involving commercial banks, corporate sponsors, regulators, and institutional actors across dispute resolution, banking, infrastructure, project finance and regulatory matters in Kenya and the wider region.

His work has involved matters across Kenya, the United States, Asia, and Cyprus, particularly in relation to contractual risk, infrastructure projects, energy agreements, governance frameworks and regulatory systems.

At Harvard, Nyaga Dominic worked at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, contributing to a forthcoming Yale University Press publication examining platform governance, institutional accountability and the regulatory implications of foreign technology infrastructure in African states.

While in Cambridge, he convened and moderated institutional dialogues on constitutionalism, artificial intelligence governance, digital regulation and multilateralism, including events at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School featuring the Chief Justice of Kenya, the former Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya, and the Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

He previously served in an adjunct role at Strathmore University School of Law and as an Editor of The Platform for over five years.

He writes on law, governance, regulation and institutional systems, including as an op-ed contributor to Business Daily Africa, and serves on the Legal Tech and Innovation Committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.