Resumen de Merger to create £33m Paris firm

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  THE WORLD THIS WEEK Nabarro's French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés and fellow Paris firm CGR Legal are to merge, creating a €44m (£32.9m) firm with 160 lawyers.

  The merger will propel the combined firm, LPA CGR, into the top 10 independent French firms by turnover and also into The Lawyer's European 100.

  LPA CGR will boast a team of 40 partners and another 120 lawyers, and have offices in Paris, Algiers, Casablanca, Munich, Hong Kong, Shanghai and, most recently, Tokyo.