Timber and Forestry Law

In its capacity as legal counsel to forestry operators, Cabemery intervenes in the interpretation and enforcement of the country’s forestry legislation as organized and implemented in the forestry code Act of 29 August 2002 (Act 011/2002). The firm further intervenes in such areas as the conversion of outdated forestry rights (i.e. letters of intent), provisioning guarantees, forestry concession applications and the fulfillment of obligations under the current forestry laws.


Emery Mukendi Wafwana & Associés (CABEMERY) is a firm of lawyers and agents established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Created in 1995 on the initiative of Mr. Emery Mukendi Wafwana, an attorney registered at the bar of Kinshasa-Gombe, the firm is headquartered in Kinshasa/Gombe (DRC capital). It has branch offices in Lubumbashi (mining city) and Matadi (port city).