Manatt is pleased to sponsor Novogradac & Company's Spring New Markets Tax Credit Conference in Washington D.C., June 9-10, 2011. Manatt partner Neil Faden will be on a panel discussing "Non-Real Estate Deals" covering non-real estate/operating business transactions that ensure job creation, challenges and how DCEs overcome them, QALICB qualification and "reasonable expectations" considerations, the efforts at the Treasury to make business lending and investing align better with the NMTC, and small business lending - how it can work and how to create and manage successful loan pools with NMTCs.