About Us
Meet the partners who provide a uniquely tailored experience for our clients.
Our Partners
Fred W. Bopp III
Partner — [email protected]
Fred has been practicing law since 1989. He is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and has appeared before the bankruptcy courts in the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Illinois, and New York. Fred graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in History and then from Vanderbilt University School of Law. He practiced with a law firm in Portland, Maine before coming to Holman, Howard, Bopp & Guecia in 2018. Cecilia and Fred formed Bopp & Guecia in January of 2019.
Fred's practice has focused on significant complex commercial civil litigation (representing both plaintiffs and defendants), the pursuit and enforcement of creditors' and debtors' rights and remedies, real estate and landlord-tenant disputes, bankruptcies, reorganizations, insolvencies, liquidations, financial restructurings, workouts, receiverships, construction/contractor disputes, sales, contract review and negotiations, appeals, arbitrations, mediations, and related matters and proceedings. He is a longstanding trusted legal advisor to individuals and businesses in a wide range of engagements, both in and out of state and federal court, including numerous financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors in bankruptcy cases, receivers, business owners, buyers of real estate, landlords, tenants, parties involved in litigation, acquirers of assets, healthcare and benefits administrators, manufacturers, Chapter 11 Creditors' Committees, Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees (in Maine and Massachusetts), and debtors in bankruptcy. Fred has considerable experience representing clients in preference, fraudulent transfer, and director and officer litigation, relief from stay, allowance of claims, § 363 and receivership sales, Chapter 11, 12, and 13 plan confirmation, contract negotiations, and other bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy matters. He also serves as a mediator and has arbitrated disputes as a member of the American Arbitration Association National Panel.
Fred is AV Peer Review rated for Legal Ability and Ethical Standards by Martindale-Hubbell and his peers have selected him for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 in the fields of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy.
Fred is a member of the Cumberland County, Maine (Member: Sections of Bankruptcy & Reorganization, Consumer & Financial Institutions Law, Federal Practice, Litigation, and Solo & Small Firm), New Hampshire, and American Bar Associations (Member: Sections of Business Law, Litigation, Law Practice Division, and Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division) and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is also a Maine Bar Foundation Fellow and a Co-Trustee of the Bopp Family Charitable Foundation.
Fred is a foodie who enjoys a good meal, can regularly be found playing golf and pickleball, and is an avid boater and pinball enthusiast.
Cecilia J. Guecia
Partner — [email protected]
Cecilia Guecia has been practicing law since 2008. After graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in European Imperialism and World Development, with a focus on the Middle East and South Africa, Cecilia moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actress.
Following her acting career, Cecilia joined AmeriCorps to spearhead a literacy program, then attended law school at The University of Maine School of Law. During law school, Cecilia worked at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, participated in the Protection from Abuse Program, and was a member of the Moot Court Board. After a judicial clerkship, Cecilia worked at a handful of small law firms before becoming an entrepreneur and starting her own law firm. Her partner, Fred Bopp, joined her in 2018, and the firm moved to its new and present location, 121 Main Street in Yarmouth, in 2020.
Cecilia provides a wide array of legal services for individuals, families, and businesses. Her practice is intimate, efficient, and highly skilled. Cecilia is grateful for the number of clients who return to her year after year for issues that arise in their lives.
Cecilia has served as the Legislative Liaison for the Family Law Section of the Maine Bar; she was a founding board member of Maine Community Law Center and remains a member of Maine Attorneys Saving Homes. She served a three-year appointment on the Town of Yarmouth Affordable Housing Committee.
Cecilia is a founder of the Maine Divorce Workshop, hosted through TogetHER Invested, for which she has volunteered her time since 2014. Cecilia was selected to be a member of The Gignoux Inn of Court, an invitation only group of attorneys, judges, law students, law deans, and court personnel who meet to foster learning and collegiality among the Maine Bar, law school and the Bench.
Cecilia is a member of the American Bar Association, as well as the head of the Maine chapter of the Wesleyan Lawyers Association.
In her free time, Cecilia can be found acting and writing with colleagues in New York City, camping and exploring with her husband, Philip, and daughters, Blythe and Aurora, cooking and baking, reading everything as she is happiest with a huge stack of books somewhere close by, practicing yoga and kickboxing, or hosting gatherings at her Yarmouth home.
