Senior Managing Director
Guggenheim Securities
Elizabeth Abrams is a Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Securities, where she advises companies, boards of directors, investors and governments on liability management and restructuring transactions. Elizabeth has advised on many of the most complex restructuring transactions across sectors, including power, real estate, oil & gas and public finance. She also serves as a member of Guggenheim Securities’ fairness opinion and valuation committee.
Elizabeth has spent her career focused on restructuring. Ms. Abrams was part of the team at Millstein & Co. that joined Guggenheim in 2018 and prior to Millstein. She started her career in restructuring at Miller Buckfire.
Elizabeth has advised on restructuring of billions of dollars of liabilities. Notable transactions include advising constituents in the restructurings of Texas Competitive Energy Holdings (now Vistra Energy), the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Pacific Gas & Electric, and General Growth Properties, among others. She has been recognized as a leader in the restructuring field and her work has been honored by the Turnaround Management Association and Turnaround & Workouts magazine.
Ms. Abrams graduated from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A.S. from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She has served as a guest lecturer on restructuring topics at the University of Virginia and Columbia Law School. She currently sits on the boards of directors of Her Justice and Animal Lighthouse Rescue.