Nicolas Grabar

Practice Areas

Nicolas Grabar’s practice focuses on international capital markets and securities regulation and on the representation of large reporting companies.

Nick has extensive experience in international financing in public and private markets, US securities law applicable to foreign issuers, and regulation of financial reporting. Advises on securities considerations in M&A transactions.

He plays a primary role in the firm’s work for public company clients, including leading Mexican and Brazilian businesses, sovereigns, and global investment banks, on their biggest and most complex capital markets and financing matters.

Career

Joined firm, 1984; Partner since 1991. Clerkship, Honorable Pierre N. Level, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1982-1983. J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School (1982); B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College (1978).

Professional Memberships

Adjunct Faculty Member, International Securities Regulation, Columbia Law School

Member, Board of Directors, Council of the Americas

Former Chair, Annual “Global Capital Markets and the U.S. Securities Laws” Program, Practicing Law Institute, 2002-2010

Former Chair, Financial Reporting Committee, New York City Bar Association

Member, TriBar Committee on Legal Opinions

Chair, Board of Trustees, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Association

Member, New York and Paris Bars

Publications

Nick writes and speaks regularly on securities regulation, financial accounting and legal opinions.