Ignacio (Ike) Aguigui, the firm's founder, principal attorney, and general counsel, has successfully represented and advised clients in diverse matters, including complex civil litigation, corporate law, business transactions, class actions, contracts, healthcare and pharmaceutical law, trusts and estates, probate, lender liability, real property, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), government law, and administrative law.

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Born in Guam, Ike graduated as valedictorian of his high school, where he was elected Student Body President and National Honor Society President. In addition, he was elected to the Eleventh Guam Youth Congress. Other graduation honors included the Principal’s Award, the U.S. Congressional Award, and the Guam Merit Scholarship Award. Ike was also one of only fifty-six students nationwide to be selected as a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centennial Scholar. 

 

Ike earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University. As an undergraduate, he won awards and research fellowships for studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). After Yale, he returned to Guam and held several senior positions in the Government of Guam. He served as Special Assistant to former Governor of Guam Joseph F. Ada, Director of the Guam Medical Referral Office in Los Angeles, and Acting Director of the Guam Health Planning & Development Agency.

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Ike then attended Columbia Law School, his second Ivy League institution, where he is believed to be the first CHamoru (Chamorro) from Guam to graduate from that law school. At Columbia, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a judicial extern to the Hon. Barrington D. Parker Jr., then-U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York (now Senior Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). During law school, he also studied French law and European Union law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.  

 

After receiving his J.D. from Columbia, Ike began his legal career in California as an associate attorney with the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He then returned to Guam as a research attorney for the Hon. Katherine A. Maraman, then-Judge of the Superior Court of Guam (later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam), before joining the Guam law firm of Calvo & Clark LLP as an associate. He next served as legal counsel to the transition committee of Governor-elect Felix Camacho and Lieutenant Governor-elect Kaleo Moylan, and then as chief legal counsel in the Office of the Governor of Guam, before returning to private practice. He was a partner in another Guam law firm before founding The Law Offices of Ignacio Cruz Aguigui.

 

Ike has served on various governing boards, including those of the Guam Election Commission, the Guam Legal Services Corporation, and the Guam Public Library. He was a member of the Supreme Court of Guam’s Subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution-Commercial Arbitration Internal Subgroup and Governor Felix Camacho’s Executive Committee on Government Reorganization. He has been included in Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

 

Ike has studied music since childhood and enjoys playing the piano, cello, violin, and flute.