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Nikita B. Cotton is an associate in Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group. Nikita represents bank and non-bank financial institutions in a wide range of regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters, including advising clients on novel and complex financial products regulated by the SEC and CFTC.
Nikita provides regulatory advice related to:
- CFTC-regulated entities, including swap dealers and de minimis SDs, introducing brokers, futures commission merchants, swap execution facilities, derivatives clearing organizations, and commodity pool operators
- CFTC-regulated products, including swaps, derivatives, energy commodities, agricultural commodities, cryptocurrency, carbon credits
- Regulation Q regulatory capital rules, including the analysis and reclassification of banks’ assets for RWA purposes
- Other derivatives and structured products transactions, including Volcker Rule and SEC risk retention rule analyses
- LIBOR transition strategies, including the creation of compliance manuals for institutional clients to implement such strategy across their entire portfolios, including derivatives and hedging products
She represents clients in a broad array of transactions, including:
- Risk-transfer derivatives, such as RPAs and total return swaps
- Deal-contingent interest rate and FX hedges for M&A transactions
- CVA hedges
- ISDA and cleared futures close-outs
- Synthetic securitizations, credit-linked notes, credit default swaps, and other credit-risk transfer (CRT) products
- Financing of risk retention interests in securitization transactions
Nikita received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as the Selections Editor for the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law and as a Research Assistant in the University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy to Michael S. Barr, the Vice Chair for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. While in law school, Nikita also completed an externship in the Cyber Unit of the SEC. Nikita received her B.A. in Economics from New York University
