Emily Abrantes is a Director and newest team member at Prager serving higher education, not-for-profit and healthcare institutions across the country. Emily has 17 years of experience serving a broad range of higher education institutions, both public and private, healthcare institutions and other non-profit institutions. She advises her clients on capital strategy matters, including capital structure evaluation, risk analysis, rating agency strategy, and transaction execution. In addition, Emily has also assisted clients in the development of financial policies to guide an institution’s long-term debt strategy, which includes debt capacity analysis, liquidity optimization, and risk assessment.

Prior to joining Prager, Emily spent 17 years at another financial advisory firm as a member of the firm’s Higher Education and Healthcare groups serving institutions primarily in the southeast.

Emily graduated from Furman University with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She is a Registered Municipal Advisor.