Erika Cabo

Erika focuses her practice in capital markets, blockchain and digital asset matters and cross-border transactions. Fluent in Spanish, Erika has particular experience advising on transactions in Latin America. Her transactional experience consists of advising U.S. and global clients including banks, corporations, funds, and global technology companies on transactions involving structured finance products and derivatives and blockchain and digital assets.

Work highlights

Erika’s experience includes advising:

• Web 3.0: advising the Swiss technology company on elements related to its mission to achieve the vision of Web 3.0, a decentralized internet, which originally facilitated the development of the Polkadot blockchain protocol.

• Composecure: advising on U.S. federal and state law regulatory issues relating to the launch of Arculus cold storage hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.

• Buy and sell-side institutions: advising in connection with the development, structuring, negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of financial derivatives products, such as deal-contingent derivatives transactions, total return swaps, currency and interest rate swaps.

• Companies and financial institutions in Europe and Latin America: advising on Dodd-Frank Act regulatory issues, related to derivatives.

• Swap providers and borrowers: advising on discretionary interest rate, FX hedging and currency conversion transactions under syndicated secured loan facilities and project financings, together with trading platform documentation.

• A U.S. bank: advising on its structured notes program for the U.S. capital markets.

• A U.S. bank: advising on various structured commodities transactions.

• Brazilian bank: advising on its structured notes program for the U.S. capital markets.

• A private U.S. bank: advising on repackagings of Latin American emerging markets assets.

• The lenders: advising in relation to a US$206m export credit agency facility granted to Petroleos Mexicanos, as borrower, to finance the repayment of oil drilling services.

• The lenders: advising in relation to a US$120m medium-term syndicated credit facility granted to Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A. to finance the operation of various airports in Argentina.

Erika received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University and studied Microeconomics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She studied Banking, Corporate, Finance and Securities Law at The University of Hong Kong and holds a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School.

Erika speaks fluent English and Spanish.