Knights in the City

Two City lawyers were awarded knighthoods in the New Year’s honours list.
Nigel Knowles, managing partner of DLA Piper, and David Lewis, formerly senior partner of Norton Rose, were honoured as was Judge Goolam Meeran, a former president of the England & Wales Employment Tribunals.
Peter Wayte, senior partner of DLA Piper International LLP, says Nigel Knowles’s knighthood “recognises his truly exceptional service to the legal profession, both in terms of his leadership within DLA Piper and the role he has played in driving the responsible business agenda.”