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

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Ike was born in Guam. He was Valedictorian of his high school class and received other honors including the Principal’s Award, the U.S. Congressional Award, and the Guam Merit Scholarship Award. He was also one of only 56 students nationwide to be named a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centennial Scholar. Based on his academic achievements, he was admitted to Yale University, where he earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude. During his studies at Yale, he won awards and research fellowships for studies the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).

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After Yale, Ike returned to Guam and held several high-level positions in the Guam government. He was 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 was admitted to another Ivy League institution – Columbia Law School in New York City. At Columbia, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as an a judicial extern to the Hon. Barrington D. Parker Jr. (now a Senior Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). During law school, he studied French law and European Union law at the University of Paris (Paris II - Panthéon-Assas).  

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After receiving his Juris Doctor from Columbia, he 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 to take a position as a research attorney for the Hon. Katherine A. Maraman, Superior Court of Guam (subsequently Chief Justice, Guam Supreme Court), before becoming an associate attorney in Guam at the law firm of Calvo & Clark LLP. He then became legal counsel to the transition committee of Governor-elect Felix Camacho and Lieutenant Governor-elect Kaleo Moylan and served as chief legal counsel in the Guam Governor's Office before returning to private practice. He was a partner in another Guam firm until he founded The Law Offices of Ignacio Cruz Aguigui.

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Ike has served on various governing boards, including boards of the Guam Election Commission, the Guam Legal Services Corporation, and the Guam Public Library. He was a member of the Guam Supreme Court’s Subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution-Commercial Arbitration Internal Subgroup and former Guam 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 for his accomplishments.

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