Hilda Montes de Oca

Since joining Financial Law Group in 2025, Hilda’s practice has been primarily representing chapter 7 trustees, chapter 11 trustees, liquidating trustees, receivers, fiduciaries, and assignees for the benefit of creditors, including prosecuting avoidance actions for the benefit of creditors.  

Prior to joining Financial Law Group, Hilda served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Martin R. Barash and the Honorable Maureen A. Tighe, in the Central District of California, where her work focused on Chapter 7 case administration and estate litigation, including contested claims of exemption, motions to sell property, as well as adversary litigation for turnover of property of the estate, and avoidance and recovery of fraudulent and preferential transfers.  Hilda’s focus also included corporate and small business reorganization, and individual debtor reorganization. 

After graduating cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, Hilda received her Juris Doctor degree from the UCLA School of Law, where she served as Ms. JD-National Women Law Students Organization, UCLA Chapter, Co-President.  While in law school, Hilda also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Thomas B. Donovan, in the Central District of California, and as an extern for the Office of the United States Trustee, Region 16. 

Hilda serves on the board of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum and is an active member of the James T. King Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, American Bankruptcy Institute, as well as International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.  She also served on the Small Business Reorganization Task Force for the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court, drafting proposals for outreach to small businesses in Central District about the benefits of Subchapter V.  

HildaM@flgsd.com: (858) 294-0214
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