Nicole Pineda
Background and Qualifications
Nicole began her legal career at Clifford Chance in London, qualifying into the securitisation group before moving to Allen & Overy to work on a number of first-time pathfinder pan-European securitisation transactions. In 2006, she moved to the Cayman Islands to join Walkers, where she went on to become a partner and lead the creation and development of the Global Latin American Group, as well as the Regulatory Banking practice. Nicole subsequently launched and led Travers Thorp Alberga’s Finance Practice for the Americas, as well as Harneys’ Cayman Structured Finance and Debt Capital Markets Practice, where she also acted as Head of the Cayman Banking and Finance practice generally.
Nicole is a partner and senior advisor of m•advisory’s Cayman based legal practice.
Nicole is an Oxford University law and George Washington University international economics graduate and common law (UK, Cayman and BVI) qualified lawyer and strategic business advisor with twenty years’ experience representing clients globally on the offshore aspects of international finance and corporate transactions. Prior to joining m advisory, Nicole led the creation, development and management of new practice groups at leading offshore global law firms based in Cayman, both as a partner and practice group head. Although Nicole’s particular area of expertise is international capital markets and structured finance, Nicole has vast experience across all global offshore finance and corporate structuring in the US, Latin America, the UK/EU, the Middle East and Asia Pacific markets ranging from US CLOs and repacks, LatAm future flow DPRs and Islamic finance, to investment funds (private equity and hedge) and high profile equity capital markets transactions (including M&A, venture capital and growth equity investments, IPOs, follow-ons and rights offerings), as follows:
Cross-Border Banking and Finance
Corporate and Commercial
Corporate Governance
Investment Funds (Private Equity and Hedge)
Mergers & Acquisitions
Regulatory Banking
Regulatory Compliance
Structured Finance and Debt Capital Markets
Venture Capital
Other highlights
-Oxford University (Pembroke College) law graduate – completed three year degree (BA; MA Jurisprudence) in two years
-Summa cum laude graduate of George Washington University Honors College, Washington D.C. (BA International Economics)
-Nicole’s interviews and articles have been published in Creditflux, SCI (Structured Credit Investor), the Global Banking & Finance Review, Intercontinental Finance, LexLatin and Getting the Deal Through
-Consistently recognised as a leading lawyer by IFLR1000, Chambers and Partners, and Legal 500 (“Nicole Pineda simply makes things happen.”)
-Consistently ranked as one of the Top 50 Banking and Capital Markets Lawyers and one of the Top 100 Female Lawyers specialising in Latin America, respectively, by Latinvex
-The only Cayman Islands lawyer to have been endorsed as a leading lawyer in IFLR’s Global Energy and Infrastructure Guide: “Pineda’s reputation precedes her” quoting one client who told the Guide “Nicole is outstanding and by far the best of offshore lawyers in the Latin American market. She has the highest technical skills, profound industry knowledge, is very entrepreneurial and business minded. She is a real business partner and absolutely key to the development of our business.”
-As a dual (USA/Spain) national, Nicole is a native English and Spanish speaker, and is fluent in Portuguese (FAAP, São Paulo)
-Qualified to practice law in: England and Wales, BVI and Cayman Islands