Kutak Rock attorney Deborah Froling will be part of a panel of experts discussing Direct Participation Programs (DPP) at the Spring Conference of the Alternative & Direct Investment Securities Association in New Orleans on April 3, 2017.

Froling will participate in the session titled "Best Practices of DPP."  The session will provide an outline of the key elements that should be considered and evaluated when reviewing and prior to working with DPP. Panelists will share their best ideas for what really works when implementing DPP into one's practice, and how industry participants including issuers, sponsors, broker-dealers, registered representatives, investment advisors, attorneys, and third-party analysts can provide essential input in conducting proper due diligence and evaluating investment offerings in varying DPP.

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Froling, a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, has extensive experience in public and private offerings of debt, equity and convertible securities as both issuer's and underwriter's counsel primarily for real estate companies. She has closed public and private debt and equity offerings, primarily for REITs and other real estate companies, as well as non-traded equipment finance and oil and gas companies, and business development companies. She also has structured and closed numerous tenant in common syndications and has worked with public and private company clients providing general corporate counseling and advising on periodic and annual reporting and other SEC disclosure requirements.