Philip Lee knows more than most about working in challenging circumstances. As a young lawyer, he worked in Honduras and Latin America in the late 1980s and early 1990s as Irish firm Fyffes was trying to gain a foothold in the banana market there. At the time, militia with AK 47s were boarding ships and destroying fruit. When he arrived, Lee was given a personal security detail, one of whom was later killed. His return to Ireland was more sedate, but interesting nonetheless – life as a commercial lawyer and the driver behind the commercial law firm Philip Lee. The…

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