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]