Testimonials from Lawyers

John Rush of Oakbridge presented a seminar series titled "Coming to Terms with the Jargon of International Finance" for the Financial Services Department at Clayton Utz. As ever, John stripped each item of jargon to its basic commercial and legal elements, which he then explained. John’s unique strength as a presenter to an audience of legal practitioners remains his simplicity and clarity of explanation, coupled with his market experience.

ANTHONY M GREGG
Consultant
Clayton Utz, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia


Corrs Chambers Westgarth conducts a Banking and Finance Seminar Series for clients and staff lawyers. We invited John Rush of Oakbridge to speak in that series on the subject of credit derivatives. John's address and associated paper explained the basic credit derivatives clearly and succinctly, and was regarded as a substantive and successful contribution to our program.

NICHOLAS DIACOS
Partner
Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)


John Rush of Oakbridge Limited brought an important NSW Supreme Court judgment concerning the lender’s responsibility to explain dual currency borrowings to my attention. I subsequently wrote an article for a leading online legal newsletter upon that judgment under the title Should the bank have done more to explain the risks of dual currency borrowing? I knew that John had in the past provided expert witness assistance to lawyers in the area of foreign exchange lending and was therefore well placed to comment upon the factual situation from a financial markets perspective. He added to my article some succinct technical comments on significant financial risk management principles that may not have been well known to a legal readership. John's contribution as a financial markets expert provided valuable depth my article. I am pleased to note his contribution.

ANTHONY J CORDATO
Cordato Partners Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)

John Rush's seminar presentation explaining the principles of foreign exchange transactions was extremely helpful to me in a situation where I was having to prepare for litigation involving such transactions in a complex context. His approach was consistently authoritative, lucid and patient.

JAMES A FARMER QC
Barrister (Auckland, New Zealand)


John Rush of Oakbridge was invited to address a luncheon audience of our firm's clients and legal staff on the topic Risk or Hedge: Insight into Alternatives. John's presentation covered a technical, but highly topical, subject in a most comprehensible fashion and was enthralling. He successfully demystified an otherwise difficult subject.

KEVIN KILGOUR
Partner
Hesketh Henry, Barristers & Solicitors (Auckland, New Zealand)


As a respected member of the Gadens Consulting Group, John Rush of Oakbridge has presented specialist financial risk management seminars for clients and staff lawyers at three national Gadens Lawyers offices. He has also structured and presented at Gadens' request a Coming to Terms with the Jargon of International Finance continuing legal education talk for lawyers in our Sydney office. All of John's presentations have been enthusiastically received, due largely to an ability to apply his obvious technical expertise to the clear, concise and practical description of financial markets functioning and transactions which are often clouded in mystique.

DON MCKENZIE
Group Chief Executive
Gadens Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)

I attended a Products and Risks in Financial Markets workshop which was presented by John Rush of Oakbridge for the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants. My overall impression was that the workshop was both very interesting and worthwhile. The provision of comprehensive reference notes and handouts removed the need for note-taking, but the best feature of the presentation was the use of various coloured arrows to depict financial flows. These arrows made the topic far easier to understand and would be useful in courtroom presentations, especially in front of a jury.

GRAHAM P ELLIS
Barrister (Sydney, Australia)


John Rush of Oakbridge made three presentations on Products and Risks in Financial Markets for our firm and selected clients. From the feedback I have received and from my own assessment, I believe John's method of explanation and presentation using the whiteboard was an excellent way for persons unfamiliar with the actual mechanics of foreign exchange and related transactions to understand the processes and was well received. I believe the presentations were worthwhile, good value, clearly presented and with good backup material.

MICHAEL FALK
Partner
Middletons Moore & Bevins, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)


Four presentations on financial markets transactions were made to Partners and Staff of the Clayton Utz Sydney Banking and Finance Section by John Rush of Oakbridge. The presentations were exceptionally well received: many attendees made a point of commenting to me how much they did enjoy the series, how much they did learn, and how clear John's presentation was. Particularly relevant, I thought, was the keenness of middle/senior solicitors to put market based questions to John: it afforded them an opportunity to have their questions answered by an expert in the market. It also shows that it is most important that the explanation of the market operation of treasury and derivative products be left to a market expert and not a lawyer. At Clayton Utz's invitation, John repeated his presentations to our professional staff three years later to the same acclaim.

ANTHONY M GREGG
Partner
Clayton Utz, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)

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