regional dictator meets sheikhKicking off The New And Improved DiaryTM is glamorous cover star Sir Nigel of Knowles, the messianic UK chief of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.

Knowles is pictured here at the launch party for the firm’s new Dubai office, meeting His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and the only man in the region with a name longer than that of the firm he was meeting.