Dorothee Madiya

Dorothee Madiya s Law Firm is a well reputed firm based in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo with a subsidiary in Lubumbashi, the economic capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For more than 15 years the firm is specialized in business law and has strengthened its reputation in the field of mining law as a representative in mines and quarries for several companies. Mixing research and the continuous wish to keep up to date its knowledge, the firm has mastered the mining sector (rights) in ensuring the interests of major national and international companies in the world.

The effectiveness and the reliability built in the national and international arena this recent decade has made the firm inevitable in all discussions related to the natural resource of the DRC, therefore the firm was part of the process of drafting, negotiating and review of mining contracts in the DRC (2010) on behalf of various national and international mining companies

Besides that, Dorothée Madiya s law firm is also providing to its client and potential investors advices on the best opportunities and deals for investment in the DRC, because of its good knowledge of the Congolese laws, administration s rules, business practices, and its continuous wish to update its knowledge in order to serve the best interests of the clients the firm provides good lobbying of the best facilities of investment in accordance with the investment code of the DRC.

The quality of the service offered, proven experience in the assistance of clients in all matters in connection with mining rights and   the continuous availability to serve the best interest of their clients have made the firm inevitably part of all matters related to natural resources in the DRC, currently the firm is part of the ongoing seminar on the necessity to modify the mining code.

The firm is composed of  a team of 15 attorneys and administrative well formed and  some of them speaking English and French with expertise in natural resources, skills in oil law, customs law, company law, tax law, banking law, law reform , protection of industrial property, energy law, labor law …. .

The firm has also consolidated its reputation in the field of company law and is familiar with the creation of companies, the witting of different acts of companies as statutes, minutes of the general assembly, associations of companies, the legal assistance of the clients during the general assembly’s meeting; change of companies, transfer of shares, tax conflict and all formalities related as the obtaining of papers for foreign employees.

The main plan of the firm is to adapt all the companies’ clients’ activities and the firm s work to the new commercial and company law enacted by the organisation pour l harmonie du droit en Afrique OHADA since September 2012.