Wireless communications systems and methods related to channel occupancy time-sharing information (COT-SI) reservation of a COT for sidelink communications in an unlicensed band are provided. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) performs a channel access procedure to acquire one or more COTs in a sidelink channel over an unlicensed new radio (NR) band. Further, the UE transmits a COT sharing information (COT-SI) configured to reserve the one or more COTs for a future transmission via the sidelink channel.