Hilda M. Montes de Oca

Hilda Montes de Oca is an attorney with Financial Law Group in La Jolla, Calif., where she primarily represents 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 in 2025, she clerked for Hon. Martin R. Barash and Hon. Maureen A. Tighe in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for 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. Ms. Montes de Oca’s focus also included corporate and small business reorganization, and individual debtor reorganization. She 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, ABI and the 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. Ms. Montes de Oca received her undergraduate degree cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she served as Ms. JD-National Women Law Students Organization, UCLA Chapter, co-president. She also served as a judicial extern for Hon. Thomas B. Donovan in the Central District of California, and as an extern for the Office of the U.S. Trustee for Region 16.