Lead Counsel

Nyaga Dominic is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Lead Counsel at Nyaga Dominic & Co. Advocates. He advises businesses, investors and institutions on commercial, constitutional, regulatory and cross-border matters, with experience spanning transactions, contractual and regulatory risk, infrastructure and energy projects, technology governance and institutional advisory work. Clients and professional counterparts have described him as intellectually rigorous, commercially aware and an “out of the box” thinker, with a practical approach to complex legal and institutional problems.

Dominic is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Strathmore Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law.

He holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from Strathmore Law School, where he was awarded the Chief Justice C.B. Madan Student Laureate Prize in recognition of his contribution to constitutionalism and the rule of law.

Before leading the firm, Dominic was a lawyer at TripleOKLaw LLP and subsequently worked with a New York-based law firm. His experience across these roles included matters involving commercial banks, corporate sponsors, regulators and other institutional actors, spanning banking, infrastructure, project finance and regulatory work, as well as commercial disputes concerning financial services, business contracts, tort and intellectual property.

His experience includes matters with connections to Kenya, the United States, Asia and Cyprus, particularly in relation to contractual risk, infrastructure projects, energy agreements, governance arrangements and regulatory systems. This cross-border experience informs his work with businesses, investors and institutions operating in, or entering, Kenya and the wider East African market.

At Harvard, Dominic worked at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, contributing research 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 also convened and moderated discussions on constitutionalism, artificial intelligence governance, digital regulation and multilateralism at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, with participants including the Chief Justice of Kenya, a former Kenyan Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs and the Assistant Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

He previously served as an Editor of The Platform for Law, Justice and Society for over five years.

Dominic writes on law, markets, technology, governance and institutions, including as a contributor to Business Daily Africa, and serves on the Legal Tech and Innovation Committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.