Executive Director
Morgan Stanley | Public Finance Investment Banking
Joe Abramson is an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Tax‑Advantaged Structured Finance group, where he leads the Utilities, Circular Economy, and Energy Transition team. With more than 16 years of investment banking experience, he specializes in structuring complex municipal and private sector transactions across the circular economy, energy transition, water, wastewater, and waste to value sectors. Joe has spent his entire career at Morgan Stanley, beginning as an intern and advancing into a national advisory role known for quantitative depth and innovative structuring.
Joe has executed some of the nation’s most significant water and utility‑related financings, including transactions for the City of Fort Lauderdale, Miami-Dade County, the City of Lake Worth Beach Utility System, the Carlsbad Desalination P3 Project, the Texas Water Development Board, The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority, Capital Region Water, Fairfax County Water and Sewer, and The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. His work supports large‑scale water infrastructure, treatment, reuse, and long‑term system resilience.
He holds a B.S. in Information Systems and Operations Management from the University of Florida and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
The Southeast is Ground Zero for managing the pullback of private insurers. How is the Southeast approaching resilience in the face of more frequent severe weather events? How are issuers meeting the growing needs for upgrades of existing infrastructure along with investments in new projects amid a higher-cost environment? What is this all doing to the overall credit picture for the market?