Naya Pearlman, CPA, JD, LLM, is a Tax Partner and a member of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate industry group. Naya has 20 years of professional experience working closely with commercial real estate clients and investment management firms. She also works with private equity companies investing in energy infrastructure and financial assets.
As a tax advisor, Naya’s experience includes structuring inbound U.S. real estate equity and debt investments for foreign investors, and planning for tax efficient exits. Naya also has extensive experience with tax minimizing strategies, including tax-deferred arrangements, such as like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions, and complex partnership tax transactions. She advises her clients on tax matter provisions, including waterfall calculations and targeted allocations.
At CohnReznick, Naya provides thought leadership on industry related tax issues and is involved with firm training. Before joining CohnReznick, Naya was a Tax Partner for a major accounting firm and a major law firm. This experience included leading her prior firm’s digital asset tax practice, opportunity zone investments, and other initiatives impacting private companies and their business owners. She also chaired their Business Tax Technical Committee and guided the firm through tax law changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and new legislation.
Naya is the author of several tax articles, including articles published in Tax Notes Federal and State, and has been quoted in Law360 Tax Authority. She has been honored by Crain’s New York Business Notable Women in Accounting and Consulting and was recognized by the New York Real Estate Journal in their Women in Professional Services Spotlight. Naya was also honored as a New Leader of the Bar by the New Jersey Law Journal and as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Tax Law.
