Brexit Leads U.K. Lawyers to Seek Solace in Irish Bar

By Stephanie Bodoni and Aoife White, Bloomberg News

While last week’s Brexit vote took financial markets and bookmakers by surprise, a steady stream of the U.K.’s antitrust lawyers had already prepared for the worst by seeking professional solace in Ireland.

For Madeleine Healy, a competition lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Brussels, it was a “natural choice” to register as an Irish solicitor in case a British divorce from the European Union took away her hard-earned rights to practice EU law.

“I’m just not taking any chances with my legal profession,” said Healy, 33, who’s from the English midlands ...