Their legal concerns are industry-specific and go beyond the various areas of law. We bring together dedicated teams of several specialists to provide you with a global strategic vision and long-term operational solutions. We maintain a close exchange with you in order to adapt our responses to your local realities. LPA-CGR avocats is a leading Full-Service French law firm with an international reach, born in 2016 from the merger of Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés and CGR Legal. Our teams of more than 230 lawyers and professionals in 13 offices located in key business centres advise you on your strategic projects in Switzerland and abroad. We want to share with you our Smart Law concept: combining our experience to anticipate changes in your legal environment, develop and secure your business. Philippe Pelletier defines himself as the «duty recidivist». By announcing the merger of Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés (LPA), a real estate specialist, and CGR Legal, particularly recognized in the field of renewable energies, the lawyer wishes to repeat the success he achieved in 1993 during the merger between his firm Lefèvre & associés and Pelletier Dugueyt Vaissié & associés. «On the market, this type of operation is counted between two French companies on the fingers of one hand,» he says. We proved at the time that 1+1 is much more than two in terms of sales and development, and we want to replicate this model now because we have the same starting ingredients. If the new entity is legally established in a few months for status reasons, the partners ensure that the operational consolidation will take place very quickly.
«From now on, we will approach our customers together, integrate our offers and work together on our files, while in the coming weeks we will lead the rapprochement of our respective teams,» says Philippe Pelletier. Among them at the management level, which everyone wants «collegial», thanks to a board of directors in charge of current affairs, an executive committee that will deal with more strategic issues, and a compensation committee that respects parity between the partners of the two former companies. On the one hand, Lefèvre Pelletier, with its 130 lawyers, had been thinking for several years about its size, «not to progress in the rankings, but to attract more talent and increase our investment opportunities, to accelerate our international expansion and develop our digital offer for our clients», explains Olivier Ortega, Partner at LPA; On the other hand, CGR Legal wanted to consolidate its existing activities (mergers and acquisitions, litigation, taxation), develop its related specialties (real estate, environment) and, above all, acquire a real international dimension to conquer market shares in Africa and Asia, particularly in the energy sector. «By getting closer, we could get all this at the same time and take a 10-year leap forward,» says Philippe Raybaud, partner at CGR Legal. The departure of François-Régis Fabre-Falret, who left us last July to join LPA, was a spark to initiate this merger. The new entity, LPA CGR, will have 160 lawyers, including 40 partners, six offices abroad and a consolidated turnover of more than 44 million euros, including the top 10 French business law firms. In 2020, Business Magazine published its ranking on legal advice. Our firm has received the following rankings: Industry Concerns / Each industry has specific issues that require cross-expertise, anticipation and communication to build the legal practice of tomorrow today. This is what we call smart law. We would like to share with you this dynamic vision of our business. After the failure of the merger in 2010 between LPA and THE FIRM PDGB for «questions of culture and positioning», it was explained at the time, the partners on both sides ensured the complementarity of their two structures.
«Since the Grenelle de l`environnement, the real estate and energy sectors – our two respective areas of expertise – have naturally come together,» explains Fabrice Cassin, Partner at CGR Legal. However, through regular meetings, we realized that we had the same strategic approach and that we could bring to each other what we were looking for with corporate cultures that are not so different despite appearances. For more than 30 years, we have expected changes in the law to give our customers an advantage over our competitors. In today`s economic environment, we all need to constantly adapt and constantly challenge our paradigms and solutions. By adapting to the latest technical, social and environmental developments, we can support your business in a permanent and positive way. Our tailor-made offers in times of health crisis to create together new balances This feature is reserved for our subscribers. I am a subscriber, I identify myself I want to consult the subscription offer I am not interested.