Rodrigo earned his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and graduated with first class honours from Melbourne Law School.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Rodrigo was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York where he worked on major commercial and constitutional matters as well as advising clients in regulatory proceedings before the SEC. At Cravath, Rodrigo represented clients such as JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Time Warner, IBM and Qualcomm.
Rodrigo acted for the respondents in Randall v Sorrell, 548 U.S. 230 (2006) (regarding campaign finance laws and reconsidering Buckley v Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)), before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Rodrigo has acted as senior adviser and in-house counsel to the Premier of Victoria. He was a part-time Senior Member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Recent matters include:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v National Australia Bank Ltd—acting for NAB in the market manipulation case brought by ASIC against NAB, ANZ and Westpac in relation to the bank bill swap reference rate (BBSW)
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Phoenix Institute of Australia (subject to deed of company arrangement)—acting for deed administrators in proceeding brought by ACCC and the Commonwealth alleging contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law in relation to the supply of vocational education courses
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Flugge—acting for former Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Trevor Flugge, in relation to ASIC's directors' duties proceeding concerning payments made to the government of Iraq under the United Nations' Oil-For-Food-Programme
Farey and Ors v National Australia Bank Ltd—acting for NAB in the bank fees’ class action
Earglow Pty Ltd v Newcrest Mining Ltd—acting for primary layer insurers in a class action regarding continuous disclosure obligations
Consider This Training v Department of Education and Training—acting for a registered training organisation in a dispute regarding termination under the 2014 VET Funding Contract
Mair v Rhodes & Beckett—acting for Rhodes & Beckett in contractual dispute
Lactalis Jindi v Jindi Cheese—acting for vendors in dispute concerning business sale agreement
Crawley Investments v Elman and Noble Group—acting for Elman and Noble Group in Western Australian proceeding concerning investment company
In the matter of Gunns Plantations Ltd (recs & mngrs appt'd) (in liq)—acting for certain growers in certain Great Southern schemes
Mercuri and Vraca v Syngenta Seeds—acting for Syngenta in dispute concerning seedlings
Willmott Forests including Madgwick v Kelly [2013] FCAFC 61 (security for costs decision in the Full Court of the Federal Court)—acting for the Willmott Companies
Banksia Financial Group—acting for various parties in receiver’s examinations including CEO
Zomojo v Hurd—acting for Ark Group International in contempt proceedings regarding high frequency trading technology dispute
Methodist Ladies’ College and Rosa Storelli—acting for the Board of MLC in relation to employment contract dispute
Pathway Investments v National Australia Bank class action—acting for the NAB in claim relating to US CDO markets
Sigma Pharmaceuticals shareholders’ class action—acting for insurers
ION Limited shareholders’ class action—acting for insurers
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Healey [2011] FCA 717 (the Centro directors' duties case)—acting for ASIC in claim against former directors of Centro
Fortescue Metal Group’s Cyclone George litigation including Kirwin v The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty Ltd [2012] WASC 99—acting for Fortescue
Re Fortescue Metals Group Ltd: Ex Parte Fortescue Metals Group Ltd [2010] WASC 88--acting for Fortescue Metals
Sonray Capital Markets litigation—acting for auditors
Westpoint Group litigation—acting for ASIC in claim against former auditors, directors and others
Environinvest Ltd v Great Southern Property Managers Ltd (No 2) [2010] VSC 323— application for extension of time within which to decide to disclaim certain leases
Willmott Forests Limited—acting for receivers
Great Southern litigation—acting for the responsible entity in the Victorian proceedings