Philip Lee is one of Ireland’s leading full service commercial firms. It has built a team of top tier lawyers who can advise on every aspect of business, at home and internationally. Its partners are recognised leaders in several areas of law, including corporate and M&A, real estate and planning, construction, PPP, procurement, environmental, energy, competition, data, employment, EU, intellectual property, IT, immigration and tax.

Clients of the firm are pioneering private companies operating in the world’s leading sectors – most notably aviation, banking, construction, energy, FDI, finance, food, healthcare, life sciences, media, motoring, pharmaceutical, sport and technology. 

Working with us means you can quickly access a global network. Philip Lee is the sole Irish member of Multilaw, a consortium network of over 10,000 lawyers in 100 countries worldwide and ranked by Chambers Global 2020 as an ‘Elite’ international network of law firms. Through our active working relationships with many firms in that network our clients have direct access to an impressive breadth of legal, policy and business resources. Those resources allow us to avail of ‘lessons learned’ from other jurisdictions, thereby saving our clients costs and avoiding risks.

We know that the market for legal services is global as well as local, which is why we opened our offices in Brussels, London and San Francisco. We recognise Ireland’s role as a gateway for many businesses seeking to expand into Europe, or from the Middle and Far East into the US market.

Why work with us

• Sector Specialists: Clients need lawyers who understand the sector specific fundamentals, the technical language involved and the markets in which they operate. This is where our skill set at Philip Lee adds real value. This sectoral specific knowledge means we are in a position to deliver cost effective services without the burden of high costs. We pride ourselves on having a team of deep domain experts who have direct experience of both working in industry (including in senior leadership positions) and as legal advisers.
• As our clients would confirm, we are also a partner-led firm, as evidenced by our associate to partner ratio, which we believe is unique in this market and which ensures that clients do not have to work through multiple layers of hierarchy (and associated costs) before reaching the person with the hands-on experience to advise them promptly, efficiently and expertly on the issue at hand, regardless of its complexity.
• Our compact scale and relatively low overhead enables us to deliver services with a cost-effectiveness that cannot be matched by the larger firms. At the same time, our service offering across a number of key practice areas and business sectors is widely recognised to be market-leading.