A little more than two years after DLA Piper hired former Linklaters managing partner Anthony “Tony” Angel out of retirement, the onetime Magic Circle maestro is poised to step down as global cochair of DLA to make way for new leaders Sir Nigel Knowles and Roger Meltzer.
DLA, the world’s largest firm by both gross revenue and head count, announced the management shake-up in a press release Tuesday afternoon in the United Kingdom. The firm said that as of Jan. 1, 2015, DLA’s top leadership posts will be shared by Knowles, a global co–CEO of the legal giant and head of DLA Piper International LLP, and Meltzer, the cochair of DLA Piper’s U.S. LLP.
