Juana María Pardo Pardo is a senior associate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice. She specializes in advising companies on corporate defense and compliance, and also in connection with procedural law and corporate law, focusing in particular on actions for liability against directors. She also has extensive experience in advising companies and in nonjudicial dispute resolution, particularly in the automotive industry, in which she specializes, as well as in acting as legal counsel in civil and commercial court and arbitration proceedings.

She has been an associate lecturer at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) since 2010 and also teaches classes on the Master’s Degrees for Access to the Legal Profession of various universities. Juan María is also a regular speaker at national and international conferences and seminars and teaches at various universities and business schools. Since 2017 she has also been the academic coordinator of the Executive Program in Corporate Compliance at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

Juana Maria Pardo Pardo has degrees in law and business administration (having obtained special distinction in both), and a doctor of laws from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Cum Laude). She not only collaborates as speaker at numerous courses and seminars but also trains continuously, having completed, for example, the advanced specialist course in restructuring and insolvency at Universidad Carlos III from Madrid in 2023. 

Juana María Pardo Pardo is member of the Madrid Bar Association (member no. 80,904) since 2006.

She has been recognized as Best Lawyer in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the Litigation & Mediation and Arbitration categories. 

Juana Maria is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on Corporate Compliance and Company Law. 

Author of the monograph “El nuevo régimen de responsabilidad de los administradores de empresas insolventes” (The New Rules on Director Liability at Insolvent Companies), published by Editorial Bosch in 2015 and has participated in various conferences and seminars on this subject.

Co-director of the work “Defensa Corporativa y Compliance” (Corporate Defence and Compliance) in 2019 and co-author of various books and manuals, including “Derecho de sociedades y crisis empresarial” (Company Law and Financial Distress), “Marco jurídico de la empresa” (The corporate legal framework) and “Fundamentos de Derecho Empresarial” (Fundamentals of Business Law), all published by Editorial Civitas-Aranzadi.

She has also authored numerous academic articles in specialist journals, particularly in the area of compliance, corporate defense, actions for liability against directors and practical issues in civil and commercial processes and in connection with evidence in which she has recently participated in an international conference on the subject. The most recent include her participation in the work “Retos de la prueba en el proceso digital” (The challenges posed by evidence in digital processes) published in 2024 or her participation as a speaker at the International Probaticius Conference in 2025.