ERIKA CABO focuses her practice on domestic and international capital markets, derivatives, structured products, and blockchain and digital assets transactions. She is a member in the Securities Enforcement and Regulatory practice, which was named the “Law Firm of the Year” for Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) in 2023 and for Securities Regulation in 2020 and 2017 by U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, and received the 2019 “Financial Services Regulation Firm of the Year” award by Chambers USA. Erika is also a member of Sidley’s FinTech and Blockchain group, which is recognized as a Band 1 practice in the 2024 Chambers FinTech Guide and was named “FinTech Practice Group of the Year” by Law360 (2020). She works with transactional lawyers on structuring deals involving financial services and technology companies, blockchain protocols, blockchain token offerings and digital asset trading platforms. She also focuses her practice on negotiating and advising on derivatives and structured products transactions in the U.S. and Latin America with U.S. and non-U.S. broker-dealers, financial institutions, corporates, and sovereigns.
Prior to joining Sidley, Erika practiced in the New York office of a global law firm, where she advised a wide range of clients (including buy-side and sell-side financial institutions and corporates) in the U.S. and Latin America in all aspects of their derivatives trading, documentation and regulation, as well as counseling technology companies in federal and state securities laws in the firm’s blockchain and digital assets practice. She earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and received her B.A. in economics from Duke University. While in law school, Erika attended a semester at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong.
She is fluent in Spanish.