Yona Goshen-Gottstein
Israel
Agmon with Tulchinsky
98 Electra Tower Yigal Alon St.
Tel Aviv, 6423806
Israel
Tel: +972-3-6078606
Email:
yona@agmon-law.co.il
Web:
www.agmon-law.co.il
Yona Goshen-Gottstein is a partner in the banking and finance department at our Tel Aviv office.
With unique experience in banking and financial regulation, Yona specializes in launching innovative financial products, formulating complex transactions of all types, investment management and combating money laundering.
Yona represents companies in local and international financing transactions, including project financing, means of control financing, real estate financing of various types as well as hedging transactions. She provides thorough legal advice that includes mapping out the company’s needs, extensive negotiation of financing agreements as well as handling complex financing instruments with unique expertise in derivatives and ISDA agreements.
Yona’s clients include major Israeli and international banks, government entities, public and private corporations and domestic and foreign investors. Yona represents businesses, corporations and government bodies before the Bank of Israel and the Israel Securities Authority.
Along with extensive legal experience, Yona also brings to bear rich and extraordinary practical experience in banking and finance; before joining the firm, she held a variety of senior positions in the world of banking, including Vice President and Director of the Central Services Division and Chief Risk Manager at UBANK, Head of the Legal Department at the Bank of Jerusalem, and the Chief Legal Counsel of the First International Bank of Israel. As part of her duties, she was responsible for credit risk systems, operational systems, and played a central role in the establishment of the commercial infrastructure of the Bank of Jerusalem as well as in the establishment of the risk and credit management systems at UBANK.
The department’s team brings to bear broad legal understanding of banking and financing – characterized by an extremely complicated regulatory interface – coupled with unique understanding of complex financial instruments.
The team has vast and unique experience in representing Israeli and foreign banks, credit companies, insurance and communications companies, oil and gas corporations, real estate developers, investors and others. The department’s team advises various entities in complex transactions, in the creation of new banking infrastructures and in the regulatory interface with the authorities.
In addition, the department has unique expertise in the field of project financing, mainly in the oil and gas industry, with the international regulatory rules for derivatives transactions (ISDA) and with additional standards for international and domestic credit.
As the merger of two of Israel’s most respected law firms in 2012– Agmon & Co and Rosenberg Hacohen & Co – Agmon is today one of the country’s larger law firms, and is ranked among Israel’s top law firms by both international guides Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, as well as domestic legal guides D&B and BDI.
Co-founded in 1992 by Zvi Agmon and Dr. Mishael Cheshin, Deputy President of the Supreme Court (Ret.), Agmon & Co. gained a formidable reputation in antitrust law, class actions, administrative law, construction and development, banking and finance, and civil-commercial litigation, and was ranked among Israel’s leading law firms in these fields.
“Head of the firm’s banking and finance department, Yona Goshen-Gottstein‘s experience includes advising on asset-backed finance, cross-border transactions and acquisition finance. She also offers expertise in banking litigation and regulatory matters.”