Jérôme DELON

SOREMI SA
Mining Sector
Legal, Administration & Finances Manager

PO Box 4142 Pointe-Noire
Republic of the Congo

jerome.delon@soremicongo.com

Legal and tax adviser in the Republic of Congo

SPECIALIZED SKILLS

• Hydrocarbons laws:

Negotiation of PSCs;
Tax and petroleum costs audits;
Legal and tax structuration of the oil subcontractors operations in the Gulf of Guinea;
Preparation and review of oil related agreements.
Legal, tax & custom advices regarding para-petroleum activities (establishment/setting up of companies/branches and ATE, withholding tax ...);

GENERAL SKILLS :

• Commercial and company laws:

Assistance to companies for their choice of company structure for operations in Congo, in particular, in the light of OHADA & CEMAC regulations applicable in Congo;
Company secretary and legal formalities;
Registration and de-registration of branches of foreign companies;
Joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions;
Shareholders agreements;
Drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements (lease, transfer of business, distribution agreements…).

• Tax laws:

Tax compliance and tax audits;
VAT assistance;
Tax structuring for corporate income tax and personal income tax;
Tax negotiation and litigation.

• Customs laws:

Customs advice for the import or export of goods (customs value, temporary admission regimes…)
Customs litigations.

• Social laws:

Payroll assistance;
Social audits;
Employment contracts and collective agreements;
Assistance to social claims.

• Financing and security law:

Banking laws;
Project financing (BOT, concession, State contracts, privatisation);
Security interests laws for the securisation of financing (mortgage, pledges, charges, guarantees…).

Legal & Tax Consultant

skills :
Oil & Gas sector (PSC, Legal, tax & custom laws)
Mining companies (Conventions, Legal, tax & custom laws)
Timber companies (Legal, tax & custom laws)
Specilaized in OHADA and CEMAC laws.

Press group number one to publication dedicated to ads (PARUVENDU).
Worked on Intellectual Property law (trademarks, patents and designs), Contract Law, Press law, Commercial Law…

Wrote a financial and legal guide for the Grenoble Start up Incubator to help start-ups with legal aspects
of setting up a business. I worked more specifically on Business Law, Industrial Property, Valuation and
Funding. Trained by DST (Direction and Survey of French Territory) on Security of Information Systems.