
Shareholder Derivative Litigation
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1986)
University of Southern California (B.A. 1983)
California
U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of California
U.S. District Court for the District of Wisconsin
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys' Director's Award
San Diego Mediation Center's Peacemaker Award for Community Service
Honoree of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's 100 Portraits presentation
Association of Business Trial Lawyers
San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association
Former Chair and Vice Chair of the Federal Courts Committee of the State Bar of California
Former Chair of the City of San Diego's Citizens Equal Opportunity Commission
Former President of California and San Diego La Raza Lawyers
Former Chair of San Diego La Raza Lawyers' Judicial Endorsements Committee
Sits by judicial appointment on Southern District of California's magistrate reappointment and selection committees
George C. Aguilar and Conrad B. Stephens, Say-on-Pay and Rebutting the Business Judgment Rule, Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, November 2011
Panelist for "Litigation Issues" at Gonzaga University School of Law's Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Symposium
Speaker for "Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act Roundtable" at the International Foundation's 57th Annual Conference
Phone: (619) 398-4309
E-mail: gaguilar@robbinsumeda.com
George C. Aguilar concentrates his practice on the litigation of complex actions including securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and antitrust actions. Mr. Aguilar has successfully litigated numerous actions on behalf of shareholder clients against fraudulent management and company insiders, and has secured meaningful corporate governance reform at companies across the U.S.
Before joining Robbins Umeda LLP in 2007, Mr. Aguilar was a federal prosecutor for seventeen years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, where he tried just about every type of offense prosecuted by the Office, including those relating to immigration, drugs, firearms, terrorism, civil rights, white collar crime, and financial institution fraud. Mr. Aguilar served for four years as a trial lawyer on the Financial Institution Fraud Task Force and another four years in the Major Frauds Section. He led grand jury investigations and indicted and tried complex white collar criminal cases involving corporate, securities, bank, investor, tax, foreign currency and bankruptcy fraud, bank bribery, and money laundering. Mr. Aguilar has tried more than forty felony criminal trials to verdict, authored thirty-five appellate briefs, and argued more than a dozen cases on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Aguilar worked on complex securities defense litigation at Morrison Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
Mr. Aguilar received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California. While at Boalt, Mr. Aguilar served on the Moot Court Board and as managing editor of the La Raza Law Journal. He studied political science and journalism at the University of Southern California.
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