In April 2016 Kutak Rock attorney Deborah Froling appeared in a podcast concerning mentorship and sponsorship of women in the financial industry.

Froling is a financial industry attorney and an advocate of mentorship and sponsorship, especially for the under-represented ranks of women in the financial profession. In the podcast, hosted by Institutional Real Estate, Inc., she explains that mentorship can be an important part of professional development. She outlines how mentor/mentee relationships can be established and how these relationships can be vital in advancing careers. She also describes sponsorship, which is different from mentorship and a relationship in which the sponsor becomes an advocate to speak on behalf of the person being sponsored when important career decisions are being made.

To see the podcast, please click here.

To read a question/answer session with Ms. Froling, please click here.

Froling 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.