Nigel Knowles

Sir Nigel Knowles is the current joint chief executive officer of the Anglo-American law firm DLA Piper.^[1][2]

He was educated at the University of Sheffield, where he studied Law, and joined Broomhead & Neals as an articled clerk in 1978.^[3]

In 1996 he was appointed as managing partner of what was then Dibb Lupton Broomhead.^[3] In 2005 he became joint chief executive officer of DLA Piper following a three-way merger between DLA and U.S. law firms Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP.^[2] He was knighted in March 2009.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Firm Leadership". DLA Piper. http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/firm_leadership/. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Nigel Knowles". The Times. 21 April 2008. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3680682.ece. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Sir Nigel Knowles: Knight exemplar". The Lawyer. 12 January 2009. http://www.thelawyer.com/sir-nigel-knowles-knight-exemplar/136252.article. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
4. ^ "Yorkshire lawyer Sir Nigel Knowles took on the world and won". The Times. 8 July 2009. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6662357.ece. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 

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