Profile
Erika Cabo focuses her practice on regulation, structuring, and compliance of, and transactions in, blockchain and digital assets, derivatives and complex structured products. She represents a diverse range of clients, including global blockchain technology companies, cryptocurrency exchanges, token sellers, cryptocurrency funds, broker-dealers, major global investment banks and financial institutions. Erika advises on tokenization of real-world assets, blockchain-based capital markets transactions, blockchain token sales, and trading and investment in digital assets.
Erika engages with regulators and policymakers on behalf of clients, including representing blockchain platforms before the SEC’s Crypto Task Force and drafting comment letters on proposed SEC rules. She has represented technology companies in advanced policy initiatives such as the CLARITY Act and market structure bills, advocating for clear regulatory definitions and safe harbor frameworks to support responsible innovation in the digital asset space.
Erika counsels financial institutions, blockchain platforms, centralized and decentralized digital asset exchanges and technology companies on securities and commodities issues, custody rule requirements, broker-dealer matters and cross-border regulatory issues. She structures deals and negotiates U.S. and cross-border agreements involving digital assets and complex financial products and regularly helps clients navigate evolving federal and state securities and commodities laws and regulations.
In her derivatives practice, Erika advises on all aspects of derivatives and structured products transactions across the U.S. and Latin America, including regulatory strategy, compliance, negotiation, structuring and documentation. Erika advises both regulated entities and end users on Dodd-Frank Act and Commodity Exchange Act regulation and compliance, and on the structuring of innovative hedging, trading, and risk management solutions.
In a previous role, Erika practiced in the New York office of a global law firm, where she represented buy-side and sell-side financial institutions, corporates and technology companies in the U.S. and Latin America in derivatives trading, documentation, and regulatory matters. She also counseled technology companies on securities laws in the firm’s blockchain and digital assets practice. She is fluent in Spanish.
Concentrations
- Advising on complex, cross-border regulatory and transactional matters involving crypto, blockchain, DeFi, tokenization of real word assets, derivatives, and securitized structured products
- Guidance on securities laws, commodities laws, and SEC/CFTC regulations for blockchain and fintech clients
- Regulatory advocacy before the SEC and CFTC, including comment letter drafting and engagement on digital asset policy initiatives such as the CLARITY Act and safe harbor frameworks
- Regulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act and Commodity Exchange Act
- Structuring and negotiating complex derivatives, structured products, and debt facility hedging programs
- Cross-border issues in financial regulation and transactions
תחומי התמחות
ניסיון מקצועי
- Served as lead counsel to a Layer 1 blockchain in strategic commercial agreements with major crypto trading platforms and centralized exchanges, including multifaceted deals involving performance-based incentives, grant funding, intellectual property licensing marketing, and technology integration to drive adoption of native stablecoins and expand ecosystem partnerships.°
- Structure and lead negotiation of digital asset trading agreements, token liquidity arrangements, grant agreements and token subscription agreements, and develop regulatory compliance strategies for global token resales.°
- Represent a Layer 1 blockchain protocol in a token-backed PIPE and follow-on ATM transaction by a publicly listed digital asset treasury company, advising on capital markets structuring, resale registration, and bespoke token consideration mechanics. The transaction also included negotiated infrastructure blockchain deployment covenants and cross-party alignment under a protocol-native compliance framework.°
- Led the development of standardized term sheets for stablecoin transactions on behalf of a Layer 1 blockchain post-GENIUS Act, supporting scalable native stablecoin deployment.°
- Led blockchain-focused due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions transactions, identifying legal risks and regulatory compliance issues, and drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements and related documents.°
- Represented a leading Layer 1 blockchain client in engaging with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, advocating for regulatory rules to codify the definition of “investment contract” and for a safe harbor framework inspired by the CLARITY Act — aligning the client’s business model with U.S. regulatory policy.°
- Drafted and submitted a proposed bill to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on behalf of a leading Layer 1 blockchain, informed by the Clarity Act and the Responsible Financial Innovation Act.°
- Counseled an aviation and aerospace tech company on real-world asset tokenization; provide regulatory and structuring guidance.°
- Advised a crypto bank on SEC SAB 121 compliance for its crypto-asset custody business — covering safeguarding liability accounting, disclosures, IPO and M&A considerations, and strategies for securing SEC “non-objection” relief.°
- Counseled centralized crypto exchanges, decentralized oracle networks, blockchain platforms, and crypto banks on regulatory issues (SEC, CFTC, money transmission), risk mitigation strategies, and compliance and reporting requirements relating to DeFi products, token airdrops, trading strategies, and digital asset custody businesses.°
- Led drafting of blockchain risk disclosures in prospectuses and private placement memorandums for corporates adopting Bitcoin treasury strategies and crypto fund clients.°
- Advised DeFi protocols on the strategic, legal, and regulatory considerations for employee token vesting, trading plans, compensation structures, and token repurchase, distribution and burning programs related to dissolution or exit events.°
- Counseled blockchains and digital wallet providers in drafting 10-Q and 10-K SEC filings, grant token agreements, custody agreements, interacting with the SEC, drafting comment letters on proposed SEC rules, no-action letters and submissions.°
- Represented ISDA and financial institutions in preparing white papers and legal memoranda analyzing securities laws, regulatory frameworks, and custody issues regarding digital assets held by custodians or crypto exchanges.°
- Counseled global financial institutions, corporates and sovereigns in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America on the complex regulatory issues arising in cross-border derivatives transactions, including regulatory compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations, preparing U.S. Self-Disclosure Letters and cross-border rep letters.°
- Advised global banks in the documentation and negotiation of structured notes programs, and issuances of credit, equity, and index-linked structured notes, SPV repackagings, and structured commodities transactions.°
- Advised a U.S. technology company on federal and state law regulatory issues relating to the launch of its cold storage wallet and hardware for digital assets in the U.S. and international markets.°
- Advised a Swiss technology company on elements related to its mission to achieve the vision of Web 3.0, a decentralized internet, which facilitated the development of its blockchain protocol, including drafting and negotiating a token grant agreement.°
- Represented a digital trading company in drafting and negotiating a digital asset custody agreement with a digital asset platform.°
- Counseled a large global bank on securities laws and regulatory and custody rule issues in connection with digital assets to be held with a custodian or digital asset wallet provider on behalf of its clients.°
- Drafted, structured, and negotiated swap documentation for buy-and sell-side institutions in connection with a variety of bespoke derivatives transactions, including hybrid products that combine securitization or project finance techniques and derivatives, deal-contingent derivatives transactions entered in connection with M&A transactions, total return swaps, and currency and interest rate swaps.°
- Represented lenders and borrowers in Latin America in syndicated loan facilities and project finance transactions.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Cabo prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
- Erika has previous in-house legal experience working as Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong and as an ISDA negotiator atGoldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.
הישגים ותפקידי מפתח
- Board Member, Duke South Florida Alumni Association, 2025-Present
- Member, The Digital Chamber, 2024-Present
- Member, Legal Services of Greater Miami Young Professionals Council, 2023-Present
- Pro Bono Volunteer, Kids in Need of Defense, 2018-2024
הכשרה מקצועית וכישורי שפה
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School
- B.A., Duke University
- Florida
- New York
- English, Native
- Spanish, Native