Profile Summary
Delbert Ochola is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution Practice at G&A Africa, with over seven years' experience advising and representing clients in complex commercial, constitutional, administrative and employment disputes.
- Practice areas
- Dispute Resolution
- Office
- Nairobi Office
His practice spans commercial litigation and arbitration, constitutional and administrative law, banking and insolvency disputes, public procurement, employment and labour disputes, and disputes involving public institutions and regulated sectors. He has represented corporations, financial institutions, government agencies, state corporations and other institutional clients before Kenya's superior courts, arbitral tribunals, specialised statutory tribunals and regional courts, with particular experience at the intersection of commercial interests, public law and regulatory frameworks.
Expertise
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Constitutional & Administrative Law
- Banking, Financial Services & Insolvency
- Employment & Labour Law
- Public Procurement & Infrastructure Disputes
- Public-Private Partnerships
Industries
- Financial Services & Banking
- Government & Public Sector
- Infrastructure & Projects
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Experience
Representative matters
- A leading bank, in High Court proceedings to enforce a decree of the East African Court of Justice against the Republic of South Sudan, including interim mareva injunction and security applications relating to a claim of US$51 million.
- A leading electrical power generating company, as part of the representing team in a challenge before the Public-Private Partnerships Petitions Committee to a bidder disqualification decision on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer geothermal power project.
- The National Irrigation Authority, in a high-value dispute before the Court of Appeal arising from FIDIC contracts for the Mwea Irrigation Development Project (contract value of approximately Kshs. 3.53 billion), concerning the enforcement of Dispute Board decisions and the interaction between contractual dispute resolution mechanisms, arbitration and court proceedings.
- The Republic of Kenya, as a member of the instructing team in Travizory Border Security SA v Republic of Kenya (ICSID Case No. ARB/25/54), an ongoing investor-State arbitration.
- The National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya, preparing written submissions in the Deputy President impeachment proceedings before the Supreme Court (Petition No. E032 of 2025).
Regional & cross-border experience
- Enforced a decree of the East African Court of Justice against the Republic of South Sudan.
- Part of the instructing team for the Republic of Kenya in an ICSID investor-State arbitration seated in Washington, D.C.
- Part of a team representing a leading Chinese contractor before Kenya's Public Procurement Administrative Review Board.
- Advised a Kenyan HR recruitment agency on the optimal entity and structure for its expansion across the East African Community.
- Working as part of the team appointed as foreign/referral counsel on the Travizory ICSID matter.
Election petitions
- Successful representation of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in pre-election disputes including Presidential, Gubernatorial, Senatorial, Member of National Assembly and Member of County Assembly cases, filed before the IEBC Dispute Resolution Committee and the High Court, ahead of the 2022 General Elections.
- Member of the legal team that represented the IEBC in the Consolidated Presidential Election Petitions filed before Kenya's Supreme Court during the 2022 General Elections.
Awards & Recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Dispute Resolution (Kenya): recognised under “Other Key Lawyers,” 2024 (department ranked Tier 3).
- Shortlisted, Young Lawyer of the Year, Nairobi Legal Awards, 2021.
- Member of the East Africa Law Society ADR Committee (2025-2027)
Qualifications
- LL.B, Kabarak University (Second Class Honours, Upper Division)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law (Advocate, 2019)
- LL.M, International Financial Law & Regulation — Strathmore Law School
- Public Private Partnerships Law — Strathmore Law School
- PPP Commercial Considerations — Strathmore Business School
- U.S. Corporate Law (International Perspective) — Columbia Law School
- Arbitration & ADR — Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch)
Professional Memberships
- Law Society of Kenya
- East Africa Law Society
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
