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Roy Daby

Managing Partner, Head of Commercial

Roy joined GW in 2017 from another prominent Essex firm with 10 years of management experience thereby strengthening the strategic leadership at GW. Roy’s reputation as a commercial litigator able to find a solution across a breadth of different types of commercial law is unsurpassed. From sports law contracts and disputes to aviation, construction and director disputes, Roy understands his client’s needs and that a solution is required.

Roy leads a team of commercial lawyers whose combined skills of litigators, employment and property lawyers means that he will always have a team behind him working on a large deal, complex claim or a single piece of advice. He works alongside accountants and agents and for many of his clients he is the man on speed dial; whatever their legal issue, Roy will be their first call. He regularly puts clients together to enable them to further their business ambitions and his knowledge of the local business community stretching from London through Essex puts him in a unique position to support them.

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