Maryanne Mudavadi, the daughter of the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi wedded her lover, Micheal Nyaga Karanja, in a posh and glamorous wedding on 29th October 2023.
The couple exchanged vows in Nairobi’s St. Austins Catholic Church, surrounded by friends and family.
This joyous event pushed the little-known Kenyan lawyer, Micheal Nyaga Karanja into the limelight with Kenyans curious to know more about him.
Coincidentally, Nyaga Karanja got married at the age of thirty-one, which was the same age that his father-in-law, Musalia Mudavadi wedded his wife Tessie Mudavadi in 1991.
Nyaga Karanja now joins the list of prominent sons-in-laws in Kenya. However, his pompous wedding to Maryanne Mudavadi is not his biggest accomplishment yet.
Karanja is an accomplished lawyer in the country, having featured in some of the country’s big cases.
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Nyaga Karanja’s Legal Career
Micheal Nyaga Karanja is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, currently serving at the Corporate and Commercial Department at KNG & Co. Advocates LLP.
At KNG and Co. advocates, he primarily works with financial institutions and corporations, focusing on areas such as banking and finance, private equity, capital markets, and corporate tax law.
This is because of his strong background in corporate and commercial law.
In addition to his corporate and commercial practice, Michael Nyaga Karanja is an accomplished expert in competition law matters.
He advises corporations and individuals on significant aspects of competition law, including merger and acquisition notifications within Kenya and the COMESA region.
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Furthermore, Karanja deals with other complex matters including licensing and supervision of authorized credit and financial institutions, investment funds and credit acquisition as well as servicing regimes and structures.
Nonetheless, Karanja pursued his Bachelor of Laws degree (LL.B.) at the University of Nairobi and later did his master’s in political science (MA), at the University of Leeds.
He went back to his alum, University of Nairobi where he earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy.
Micheal Nyaga’s Contribution to the BBI Case
The 31-year-old was among the young lawyers that took Kenya by surprise during the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) case in 2021.
His legal acumen was displayed in the case as he was among the eight petitioners who challenged the constitutional amendment in the BBI case.
Lawyers Moraa Obote, Esther Ang’awa, Morara Omoke, Christian Ondale, Cherono Biwott, Arnold Oginga, Evans Oganda, among others aided Nyaga Karanja during that momentous case.
