Evan Borges is a trial attorney with nearly 40 years of experience handling complex business litigation matters.  He maintains a national practice and has served as lead trial and litigation counsel in cases pending in state and federal courts across the United States.

Mr. Borges has litigated cases in a wide range of areas of the law, including securities and investments; fraud; business torts; financial institutions; lender liability; real estate; corporate governance disputes, buy-outs and dissolutions; shareholder and consumer class action litigation; private attorney general actions; state attorney general actions; federal agency enforcement actions; unfair competition; trade secrets; director and officer liability; bankruptcy; debtor-creditor relations; fraudulent conveyance; professional liability; insurance coverage and bad faith; employment litigation; and trust and probate litigation.  His clients include public companies, private businesses, and individuals.

Mr. Borges began his career in 1987 in the litigation department of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.  In 1992, he was recruited by the Bass Organization of Fort Worth, Texas, joining a team of private-sector attorneys who, in conjunction with the FDIC, liquidated billions of dollars in assets and liabilities of the former American Savings and Loan Association.  The liquidation involved bankruptcy, state and federal court proceedings, as well as assets, throughout the United States.  American Savings remains the largest and costliest savings and loan failure in U.S. history.

Mr. Borges thereafter joined a boutique bankruptcy firm as partner and became head of the firm’s litigation department.  In 2000, Mr. Borges joined Irell & Manella LLP, where he practiced law for 15 years. At Irell, Mr. Borges served as lead counsel in numerous high-profile, national cases pending in federal and state courts across the United States.