Yan Zhang
Represents financial institutions in securities offerings of structured products linked to equities, commodities, currencies, rates and combinations of these assets.
Yan is a member of our Capital Markets and Derivatives & Structured Products practices. She represents financial institutions in securities offerings of structured products linked to equities, commodities, currencies, rates and combinations of these assets.
She has extensive experience in the development of new financial products, including exchange-traded notes and proprietary indices for retail and institutional investors. Financial institutions, corporations and investment funds seek her advice on structuring, negotiating and documenting equity derivatives transactions as well as offerings of convertible and exchangeable securities.
Yan’s work is recognized by Chambers USA and IFLR1000. She was named “Structured Finance Lawyer of the Year” at the 2023 Euromoney Women in Business Law Americas Awards, after also being recognized in 2019.
Experience
- Over 10,000 structured products offerings by U.S. and European financial institutions valued over $30 billion in the aggregate during 2024
- ISDA master agreement negotiation and currency swap transactions by Meituan
- ISDA master agreement negotiation and swap, covered call and collar transactions by a major Chinese technology company
- Prepaid put transaction by Kingsoft Cloud to repurchase $100 million of its American depositary shares
- Prepaid put transaction by RLX Technology Inc. to repurchase $19 million of its American depositary shares
- $1 billion convertible notes offering and capped call transaction by Datadog
- $218 million convertible notes offering and capped call transaction by indie Semiconductor
- Registered offerings of over $28 billion perpetual strike preferred stock and convertible senior notes by Strategy
- Reg S offering of $430 million convertible senior notes by VNET Group
- Rule 144A offering of $330 million convertible senior notes by Weibo Corporation
- Regulation S offering of $600 million convertible senior notes by iQiyi, Inc.
- Rule 144A offering of $1.6 billion sustainable convertible senior notes by Bilibili
- Registered offering of $6.9 billion convertible senior notes by Sea Limited
- Registered offerings of over $5 billion fixed-to-floating-rate eligible liabilities senior notes by Deutsche Bank AG in 2024
Insights
Recognition
Chambers USA – Capital Markets: Structured Products
IFLR1000 – Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation, United States, Highly Regarded
Euromoney Women in Business Law Americas Awards – “Structured Finance Lawyer of the Year,” 2019 and 2023
Education
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- James Kent Scholar
- Editor, Columbia Journal of Asian Law
- Peter Sajovic Memorial Prize
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York