Nicole Skalla is co-chair of the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Her practice focuses on securitization and structured finance, with a particular emphasis on structured credit products and collateralized loan obligation transactions. Nicole represents investment banks, financial institutions, investment advisors, issuers, investors and end-users in collateralized loan obligation transactions, cash, hybrid and synthetic CDOs and other asset-backed securities transactions. She has also represented investment banks and others in connection with credit derivative and other swap transactions and asset repackaging programs.

• Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2005
• University of Kansas, B.A. (cum laude), 2002