1. PRAVEEN KAMATH
123 Lafayette Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey 07055 ● (646) 715-6663 ● pkamath@aominvestments.com
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MANAGING MEMBER OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITION FIRM
Founded real estate acquisition firm with the backing of major real estate players in NYC and elsewhere, and
significant pool of smaller investors v Involved in several deals with an aggregate value of over $20 million, as
well as involvement in syndicating deals with an aggregate value over $245 million v Previous experiences
include serving as a dynamic second-in-command Executive Vice President and General Counsel of private real
estate/insurance holding company with over $750 million in real estate assets and over $100 million in
insurance premiums v Successfully revamped corporation by innovating public corporate disciplinary
measures, division-by-division, employee-by-employee v Successfully negotiated various types of transactions
including mergers & acquisitions, CMBS, loan refinancing’s, commercial real estate and insurance agencies v
Successfully resolved legacy of litigation by compelling settlement of over $60 million of claims for cents on the
dollar, in addition to institutionalizing litigation-prevention, checks-and-balances corporate controls
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AOM Investments LLC (aominvestments.com)
Founder and Managing Member, Passaic, New Jersey, 09/2015 to present
• Investment company acquiring various real estate asset types in market locations, including distressed
properties and notes, with a geographical focus in the Northeast
• Particular asset types include student housing as well as general multifamily portfolios
Reliance Capital Group, LLC
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, New York, NY, 03/2015 to 08/2015
• Executive Vice President: vetted at the highest level all real estate and insurance mergers & acquisitions
transactions, including negotiating business and financial terms; restructured corporation by introducing and
implementing business corporate best practices, introduced financial and professional discipline, developed
employee morale, and developed and implemented corporate vision, creating processes and procedures
that will allow corporate growth at the highest parameters; spearheaded business aspects of developing
corporation’s pending crowd funding portal. In role as Executive Vice President, successfully negotiated
several transactions with a combined value exceeding $300 million.
• General Counsel: negotiated several real estate, commercial loans, CMBS, and insurance mergers &
acquisitions transactions to maximize profit margins; drafted, reviewed and negotiated several litigation-
related documents, including briefs, litigation letters to counsel and the court, releases and settlement
agreements; drafted, reviewed and negotiated myriad of transactional contracts, including operating
agreements, stockholder purchase agreements, certificates of incorporation, assignments of interest, loan
agreements, managing general agency agreement, general agency agreements, non-compete/non-
solicitation agreements, escrow and settlement agreements; heavily involved in entity formation and
structuring; directly helped restructure corporation, including successfully ending legacy of litigation to move
corporation forward; introduced and implemented legal corporate best practices; spearheaded legal aspects
of developing corporation’s pending crowd funding portal. In role as General Counsel, directly or indirectly
saved the corporation in litigation-related expenses and costs more than $60 million.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Senior Associate, New York, NY, 10/2011 - 03/2015; 09/1995 - 10/1996; Summer Associate, 1993
• Participated in all aspects of litigation practice; reviewed and analyzed trades involving several international
banks as part of governmental investigations; created factual context in mortgage-backed securities
litigation by FHFA against leading international bank; formulated strategies in litigation relating to monoline
insurer’s restructuring; analyzed drafting history in litigation relating to collateralized debt obligation
agreements; formulated factual and legal bases in two nation-wide securities class actions; helped generate
factual and legal strategy in mergers & acquisitions litigations arising from two contested multi-billion dollar
takeovers; reviewed documents for privilege, including generating logs
• Chosen for six-month secondment at N.Y.C. Corporate Counsel, Manhattan Trial Unit, during which took or
defended over sixty depositions, first-chaired three and second-chaired two trials, and drafted more than
twenty trial memoranda

2. Supreme Court of Delaware, Former Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey
Judicial Clerk, Wilmington, DE, 08/1994 - 07/1995
• Reviewed parties’ briefs, researched and drafted opinions for review by the Chief Justice
Federal District Court, Southern District of New York, Late Senior Judge Lee P. Gagliardi
Judicial Clerk, various locations, 09/1993 - 07/1994
• Reviewed parties’ briefs, researched and drafted opinions for review by the Senior Judge
Shearman & Sterling
Summer Associate, New York, New York, 1992 (received permanent offer)
• Researched and drafted memos on issues of federal, restructuring and international law
Public Defense Office of Detroit
Summer Law Clerk, Detroit, Michigan, 1991 (received invitation to return)
• Principal assistant in preparing cases for appeal, researched and drafted memos, interviewed clients
EDUCATION
New York University, Schack Institute of Real Estate
Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Investment, New York, New York, 2014
• Completed intensive, post-graduate studies with top marks (straight A’s), including courses in the
following real estate topics: Finance and Investment, Financial Analysis, Applied Finance and
Investment, Capital Markets, The Development Process, and Real Estate Financial Modeling Using
Excel
University of Michigan School of Law
Juris Doctor, cum laude, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993
• Participated in seminar in advanced securities law under Professor Joel Seligman
• Completed Corporate Finance and Accounting courses from the MBA Program
Michigan State University
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, East Lansing, Michigan, 1990
• Phi Beta Kappa; Honors College
• Other activities: Vice President, Pi Kappa Alpha; Counselor, Listening Ear; Founder, Martial Arts Club of
MSU; Participant, Campus Leaders on the Rise
OTHER EDUCATION
Mir College of Talmudic Law
Talmudic Scholar, post-graduate division, Jerusalem, Israel, 1996-2011
• Mastered property, contracts, agency, ownership & partnership, claims & disputes, evidence, torts and
inheritance law; delivered presentations involving extensive research and analysis
PUBLICATIONS
Item 303 and Section 10(b): To Disclose or Not to Disclose? New York: Bloomberg BNA Securities Regulation &
Law Report, 2014. (English).
Keren Yisroel: Chullin. Jerusalem: Mossad HaRav Kook, 2010. (Hebrew).
Shlichos. Jerusalem: private publication, 2006. (Hebrew).
BAR ADMISSION & REFERENCES
Admitted to New York Bar, and to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern
Districts of New York.
References available upon request.