About Us

Built for What’s Next

Yorkville Securities is an institutional broker-dealer delivering investment banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial sponsors, and institutional investors.

Our Team

Led by a team of accomplished professionals, Yorkville Securities is
founded on a simple belief: outcomes matter.

We align every engagement with our clients’ ambitions—combining flawless execution with
strategic foresight to help them navigate and lead in a rapidly evolving market.

Proven Leadership

Decades of experience guiding complex transactions and market-defining strategies.

Visionary Bankers & Brokers

Strategic thinkers who blend creativity with executional excellence.

Rigorous, Research-Driven Strategies

Insights that empower smarter decisions and sustainable value.

Client-First Approach

Your goals drive our process—from engagement to outcome.

"Yorkville Securities is built upon a foundation of distinction—a collective of visionary bankers, strategic brokers, and consummate financial markets professionals whose combined acumen, rigor, and ambition form the engine of a firm designed to lead."
Troy Rillo, Co-CEO

Our Team

Behind every transaction, every strategy, and every client success is a team built for performance. Our professionals lead with experience, execute with precision, and uphold a shared commitment to client success and market leadership.

Roger Briggs

CEO

Troy Rillo

Partner

Matthew Beckman

Partner

Michael Rosselli

Partner

Brad Silver

Head of Institutional Sales

Gary Morabito

Head of Capital Markets

Completed Transactions

November 2025

$75M

At-the-Market Offering

At-the-Market

Lead Agent

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October 2025

$1.15B

Convertible Note

Co-Manager

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October 2025

$3.5M

At-the-Market Offering

Joint Agent

Joint Agent

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Roger Briggs

CEO

Roger Briggs currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Head of Investment Banking at Yorkville Securities. Mr. Briggs began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Salomon Brothers and later served as Head of M&A at Bankers Trust. He subsequently held senior leadership roles as Head of Investment Banking at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (now Truist Securities) and at Morgan Joseph, where he was a founder and Vice Chairman. Most recently, Mr. Briggs served as Head of Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets for North America at Rabobank. Mr. Briggs holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Troy Rillo

Co-CEO

Troy Rillo is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the securities industry.

He is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Yorkville Securities LLC.

Mr. Rillo is also a Partner at Yorkville Advisors Global, LP—an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to a family of hedge funds, and is Chief Executive Officer of Yorkville America, LLC, an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to branded investment products, such as SMAs and ETFs.

Mr. Rillo is a recognized authority in corporate and securities law and is a frequent speaker on related topics.

Prior to joining Yorkville Advisors, Mr. Rillo was a corporate and securities partner at the law firm of K&L Gates LLP (“K&L”), a leading international law firm. Mr. Rillo also worked in corporate finance at Motorola, Inc., where his responsibilities included evaluating new products, strategic plans, capital budgets and acquisitions.

Mr. Rillo earned both his J.D. and B.S. in Finance from the University of Florida, magna cum laude. He was a member of the Florida Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Florida.

Matthew Beckman

Partner

Matthew J. Beckman is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in the securities industry.

He is a Co-Head of Investment Banking at Yorkville Securities and has been a Partner at Yorkville Advisors Global, LP——an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to a family of hedge funds —since its inception in 2009.

At Yorkville Advisors, Mr. Beckman is responsible for developing an investment strategy and portfolio construction, identifying investment opportunities, structuring investments and monitoring the portfolio.

Mr. Beckman began his Wall Street career at the May Davis Group, where he specialized in small- and mid-cap financings. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers College.

Michael Rosselli

Partner

Michael Rosselli is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in the securities industry. He is a Co-Head of Investment Banking at Yorkville Securities and has been one of the lead bankers at Yorkville Advisors Global, LP——an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to a family of hedge funds —since 2004. 

Mr. Rosselli is responsible for originating, structuring, and executing investments for Yorkville Advisors. He has led structured debt and equity investments across a wide range of industries, including technology, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and business services. He also serves as a specialist in financial, business, and accounting due diligence and transaction structuring.

Prior to joining Yorkville Advisors, Mr. Rosselli was a mergers and acquisitions specialist at Deloitte & Touche, advising both financial and corporate acquirers on M&A and recapitalization transactions ranging from $5 million to $5 billion. He obtained a CPA license and holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Richmond.

Brad Silver

Head of Institutional Sales

Brad Silver currently serves as Head of Institutional Sales at Yorkville Securities.

Mr. Silver is responsible for leading the firm’s efforts in capital markets distribution while cultivating and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with Yorkville’s institutional partners.

Prior to joining Yorkville, Mr. Silver was instrumental in building out the Equities team at Texas Capital Bank. Brad began his career at FBR Capital Markets, which later integrated into B. Riley Securities, where he built a strong foundation in public and private capital markets execution.

Mr. Silver holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Enterprise Management from the Wake Forest University School of Business.

Gary Morabito

Head of Capital Markets

Mr. Morabito is the Head of Capital Markets at Yorkville Securities with over 20 years of experience executing capital markets transactions. Previously, he was a Partner and Managing Director at William Blair, where he was instrumental in building out the firm’s highly successful ECM platform. Mr. Morabito has advised both private and public companies on over 350 transactions including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, convertible debt offerings, private placements, at-the-market offerings, and registered directs. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Denison University.

Matthew Feinberg

Head of Investment Banking

Mr. Feinberg is a Senior Managing Director at Yorkville Securities with over 20 years of investment banking experience.  Prior to joining Yorkville, Mr. Feinberg was Senior Managing Director and Head of the Energy Transition Investment Banking team at B. Riley Securities and its predecessor firms, FBR Capital Markets and MLV & Co.   Prior to joining the founding team of MLV, Mr. Feinberg worked at Credit Suisse in the Alternative Investments and Investment Banking Divisions.

Mr. Feinberg holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Cornell University. 

Seth Appel

Senior Managing Director

Mr. Appel is a Senior Managing Director at Yorkville Securities with over 30 years of capital markets experience, specializing in helping companies raise capital efficiently and creatively.  He was the first banker to introduce public non-convertible perpetual preferred financings to the energy MLP sector, and over his career has completed hundreds of transactions, raising more than $25 billion for clients across a wide range of industries.

Prior to joining Yorkville, Mr. Appel served as a Senior Managing Director at B. Riley Securities, Inc. and its predecessor firms, Friedman Billings Ramsey (“FBR”) and MLV & Co. LLC. Earlier in his career, he was Vice President of Listed Trading at Knight Capital Markets, where he spent 12 years as a listed trader and NASDAQ market maker, deploying firm capital to facilitate transactions for both retail and institutional investors.

Mr. Appel began his career as a public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from The George Washington University and an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Patrice McNicoll

Co-CEO

Mr. McNicoll joined Yorkville Securities following a distinguished career in investment banking. 

Prior to joining Yorkville Securities, Mr. McNicoll led the investment banking division at B. Riley Securities.

He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MLV & Co., a boutique investment bank that he successfully sold to FBR Capital Markets in 2015; the firm was later acquired by B. Riley Securities.

Earlier, Mr. McNicoll served as a Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in New York City, where he played a pivotal role in generating revenues and expanding the firm’s investment banking platform. Over the course of his career, he has structured and executed a broad range of capital markets transactions for corporate clients across diverse sectors, including cryptocurrency, energy, technology, healthcare, financial services, and industrials.

Mr. McNicoll began his investment banking career as a Vice President at ABN AMRO and held positions at other prominent institutions, including The Merchant Bank of Crédit Agricole and Bell Canada.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics from York University and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from McGill University.