Going public for any company can be risky, but the payoff is worth the risk, and there are always plenty of success stories to spur those less sure into action. Case in point: Spirit Realty Capital Inc. The firm's chairman and CEO, Thomas Nolan Jr., described his experience to Howard Roth, Partner and Global Real Estate Leader for Ernst & Young LLP, at the latter firm's REIT CFO conference in Scottsdale this fall. Here's some of what they discussed.

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HOWARD ROTH: It's the one-year anniversary of Spirit Realty's IPO in September 2012. As you look back at the process of taking a company public, what were the biggest challenges and highlights you faced?

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Geoffery Metz

Geoffery Metz is the content manager for ALM's GlobeSt.com, Credit Union Times and Treasury & Risk. Before joining ALM, he spent several years overseeing the newsroom at the financial wire service Business Wire, with special focus on multimedia presentation for the web.