Profile
Delfina Nicholson is a Partner in the Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Finance practice at Nicholson y Cano, and is also a member of the Corporate / M&A and ESG – Sustainable Finance practices. Her practice focuses on cross-border finance, structured finance, project finance, capital markets and acquisition finance transactions, with a special emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. In Argentina, she also advises companies and investors on corporate and M&A transactions.
Before joining the firm, she practiced in the New York office of Mayer Brown LLP as a member of its Banking & Finance and Latin America & Caribbean practices, and previously at Winston & Strawn LLP. She advises development finance institutions, international banks, investment funds and fintech companies on bilateral and syndicated loans, revolving credit facilities, warehouse facilities, securitizations and asset-based financings, including structures involving special purpose vehicles (SPVs), trusts and receivables portfolios.
She has regularly represented the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in development-impact and gender-lens financings in Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Ireland, including a USD 467.5 million structured loan to an affiliate of StoneCo Ltd. in Brazil, shortlisted for Latin Lawyer’s 2024 Deal of the Year. She has also advised institutions such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, HSBC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on transactions in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Argentina and the United States.
She regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional legal teams and is the firm’s contact partner for Legalink, the international network of independent law firms.
Education
She holds a law degree from Universidad Austral and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from New York University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in New York.