Esperanza Tardón Barros is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration department at Garrigues, where she has worked since 2007. She provides recurring advice on the out-of-court resolution of disputes and before civil and commercial courts. She has extensive experience in the entire spectrum of civil lawsuits, both of a corporate/commercial nature (e.g. challenges to corporate resolutions, corporate disputes, unfair competition, directors’ liability and insolvency) and a civil nature (e.g. contractual and noncontractual liability, leases, the judicial division of property, real estate and construction). Esperanza holds a Law Degree from Universidad de Valladolid and an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Law. She has been a member of the Valladolid bar association since 2006 and is also on its Ethics Committee.
Esperanza Tardón Barros is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration department at Garrigues. She joined the company in 2007, after working at another nacional law firm in Valladolid, and she has gained an extensive experience advising to financial entities, prominent companies in Castilla y León and family businesses.
She has extensive experience across the entire spectrum of civil and corporate/commercial lawsuits, in the following fields:
- Corporate disputes and director´s liability.
- Disputes in competition law.
- Disputes in real estate, construction, engineering and turnkey contract.
- Debt Recovery Actions
- Family and Inheritance Law Litigation
- Contractual (e.g. leases, supply or option agreement) and Non Contractual Liability Claims (damages).
In addition, she also has experience in the fields of criminal law, advicing on coporate criminal responsability, unfair administration, desclusure of secrets, misappropiation, punishable insolvencies and criminal offences.
She is a regular speaker at different seminars and conferences organized by the Firm on various legal topics.
- Degree in Law, Universidad de Valladolid.
- Executive Master’s Degree in Business Law, Centro de Estudios Garrigues in conjunction with Harvard Law School.
Between 2008 and 2014, she lectured on the Master’s programme in Legal Counseling for Businesses at the Business School of Valladolid Chamber of Commerce, delivering classes on the leasing of business premises.
In 2013, she lectured at the Legal Practice School of Universidad de Valladolid, delivering classes on challenges to corporate resolutions.
Member of the Valladolid Bar Association since 2006, and member of the Ethics Committee of the Valladolid Bar Association.
- "Repensando los contratos en tiempos de COVID-19". El Norte de Castilla.27/05/2020.
- "Diferencias económicas en los matrimonios y parejas de hecho". El Norte de Castilla. 31/07/2017.
- "El derecho de separación por falta de distribución de dividendos: nuevo campo de batalla de los socios minoritarios". Revista IFAE (Publicación de la Confederación de asociaciones empresariales de Burgos). 31/05/2017.