Yossi Vebman heads Skadden’s Derivatives Group, with a particular focus on over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
Throughout a career spanning more than two decades, Vebman has worked on some of the largest, most innovative and high-profile transactions involving equity-linked and other derivative financial products. Vebman’s experience includes representing Pfizer, Gilead and General Motors; major investment banks, including Barclays, Citi, Credit Agricole, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Société Générale and RBC; major funds and other asset managers, including BlackRock and Fortress; and numerous other clients in various derivatives and derivatives-related matters.
Vebman’s derivatives and financial products practice includes monetization, hedging, margin loans and other equity derivative transactions; interest rate and currency hedging transactions, including deal-contingent forward transactions; commodity hedging; repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions; and share lending transactions, among others. Vebman also has substantial experience with traditional corporate financing transactions, including public and private equity and debt offerings. His experience also includes advising on securitization of various financial assets, such as issuances of collateralized debt and bond obligations and mortgage-backed securities, and securitizations of credit card receivables.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | Capital Markets, Derivatives |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | Capital Markets, Derivatives |
Under his leadership, the Skadden Derivatives Group repeatedly has been ranked as a market leader in representing both corporate clients and other end users as well as financial institutions. Skadden frequently has been ranked as the top law firm (by value or number of deals) in representing issuers in connection with equity-linked securities, such as convertible bonds and associated hedging transactions, such as call spread and capped call transactions, substantially all of which Vebman has been personally involved in. His representations include:
- the largest-ever liquid yield option notes offering
- several of the largest convertible bond offerings and related call spread transactions, including EMC’s $3.45 billion convertible senior notes and related derivatives, Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s $2.2 billion convertible senior notes and related derivatives, and Becton Dickinson’s $2.25 billion mandatorily convertible preferred stock
- the first callable perpetual dual-currency notes
- the first margin loan by a registered investment company
- over 100 convertible and exchangeable note offering transactions, many of which involved associated derivatives
- total return swaps on a debt portfolio of approximately $10 billion
- several dealers in novel repurchase transactions with a sovereign