ERIKA CABO focuses her practice on blockchain and digital assets transactions, derivatives, and structured products. She is a member of Sidley’s OTC Derivatives group and the FinTech and Blockchain group, which is ranked as Band 1 in FinTech Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies — USA — Nationwide by the Chambers FinTech guide in 2025 and 2024 and was named “FinTech Practice Group of the Year” by Law360 (2020). She focuses her practice on representing digital asset trading platforms, blockchain technology companies, U.S. and non-U.S. broker-dealers, financial services firms, and cryptocurrency funds. She advises technology companies and investment firms on tokenization of real-world assets, public and private securities offerings, and blockchain token sales.
Erika counsels financial institutions and digital asset exchanges with day-to-day securities issues, custody rule requirements, broker-dealer issues, cross-border regulatory issues, and money services business registration requirements. She is a member of Sidley’s global Securities Enforcement and Regulatory practice, which was named the “Law Firm of the Year” for Securities Regulation in 2024, 2020, and 2017 by U.S. News – Best Lawyers®, and ranked Band 1 in Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer (Compliance & Enforcement) in Chambers USA 2025 (13 years ranked). As a transactional and regulatory lawyer, she works on structuring deals and negotiating U.S. and cross-border agreements involving financial services and technology companies, digital asset exchanges, and blockchain token offerings.
Erika 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, corporations, and sovereign entities. Erika advises a wide range of clients, including buy-side and sell-side, in their derivatives trading, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and regulation. She advises both regulated entities and end users on regulatory and compliance issues under the Dodd-Frank Act and Commodity Exchange Act.
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 is fluent in Spanish.