In the wake of Brexit, high-profile clients of international law firm Hogan Lovells kept asking the question: Why don’t you have an Irish office? Almost overnight, Ireland’s attractiveness to financial firms had skyrocketed. Suddenly, London would no longer function as their gateway to Europe and instead they would have to look to other European cities in order to passport their services into the bloc. Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Luxembourg were among the cities to benefit most from Britain’s exit from the European Union. For Hogan Lovells, headquartered in London and Washington DC, the need for a Dublin office became clear…