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.
ConcentrationsAdvising on complex, cross-border regulatory and transactional matters involving crypto, blockchain, DeFi, tokenization of real word assets, derivatives, and securitized structured productsGuidance on securities laws, commodities laws, and SEC/CFTC regulations for blockchain and fintech clientsRegulatory 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 frameworksRegulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act and Commodity Exchange ActStructuring and negotiating complex derivatives, structured products, and debt facility hedging programsCross-border issues in financial regulation and transactions
Professional & Community InvolvemenBoard 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
