Will Carmody recalls standing in the middle of the fourth floor of Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) financial services department. It was the summer of 2008, and the Irish banking system was beginning to show the cracks that would, within a few months, break.  “I’ve a vivid memory of talking to a group of partners as everything was unravelling around us. We were scratching our heads and trying to figure out what is happening here,” Carmody says.  MHC, one of the country’s biggest commercial law firms, was working with five well-known Irish and foreign-owned banks, all of whom had stopped…

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