New Market Tax Credit Deals
Any recommended conferences/resources for learning the ropes for your first deal? 

I am hoping to hit up Novogradac in October, but is there anything else out there worth attending? I am not looking for a basic "what are NMTC?" program, but more the nuances of the application/favored investments of the CDFIFund sort of info.
[{"id": "d5cqhc3", "text": "I'll ask around at my firm and PM you. I audit many nmtc deals and the firm does quite a bit if nmtc work. Can I ask what line of work you're in?", "replies": [{"id": "d5dd6qf", "text": "I work for a small (CEO and myself are the entire development team), weird hybrid firm in a secondary market. We are a non-profit CDFI, forming our first CDE for purposes of pursing a 2017 NMTC allocation. We are also an EB-5 conduit, have a patient capital mezzanine fund, a strategic acquisition fund, and do a lot of consulting to tee up complicated deals that wouldn't otherwise be pursued due to complexity. Basically we are trying to add to our toolbox so that we can do more work in our target investment area and finish assembling the rest of our firm and focus on the real estate deals once we have assembled all of the resources to do them. My background is in development consulting and assembling no debt LIHTC deals, so I am accustomed to the deal structure, but just haven't got my hands on many NMTC deals - hence looking for good conferences.\n\ntl;dr - Urban redevelopment 501c3", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d5dwzf8", "text": "https://www.novoco.com/ is a great resource.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]