Naya Pearlman, CPA, JD, LLM, is a Tax Partner with 20 years of professional experience across various industries, including commercial real estate and investment management. Naya also works with private equity industry clients invested in infrastructure and financial assets.
Naya’s experience includes structuring inbound U.S. real estate equity and debt investments for foreign investors, planning for tax efficient exits, planning for tax-deferred arrangements, including involuntary conversions and like-kind exchanges; and advising on complex partnership tax transactions. Naya also has experience evaluating tax aspects of business transactions and reviewing tax matter provisions, including waterfall calculations and targeted allocations.
Before joining CohnReznick, Naya was a Tax Partner for a major accounting and advisory 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 the new administration.
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.
