Company: AOMN
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001766478-25-000042
Chunk: 79

Company: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 79
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 not intended to result in any material changes to the investment objectives or strategies of the Company, nor to adjust the investment decision-making processes or portfolio management with respect to the Company. Angel Oak Companies has advised us that the personnel, officers and managers of our Manager are expected to remain the same. Angel Oak Companies has advised us that, as part of the Strategic Transaction, Brookfield will have a right to acquire additional beneficial ownership in Angel Oak Companies beginning in 2027, which over time could result in Brookfield taking control of the board of directors of Angel Oak Companies. Angel Oak Companies has advised us that the Strategic Transaction is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the receipt of certain regulatory clearances and required client consents. Under the Management Agreement, the Strategic Transaction would constitute an assignment of the Management Agreement pursuant to which the Management Agreement automatically terminates without payment of a termination fee unless the assignment is consented to in writing by the Company with the consent of a majority of the Company’s independent directors. For a discussion of certain risks related to our relationship with our Manager, see the information under Item 1A. “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Relationship with Our Manager and its Affiliates” in the Annual Report on Form 10-K.

We have elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2019. Commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2019, we believe that we have been organized and operated, and we intend to continue to operate in conformity with the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Our qualification as a REIT, and maintenance of such qualification, depends on our ability to meet, on a continuing basis, various complex requirements under the Code relating to, among other things, the sources of our gross income, the composition and values of our assets, our distribution levels, and the concentration of ownership of our stock. We also intend to operate our business in a manner that will allow us to maintain our exclusion from regulation as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Our common stock commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 17, 2021.

We expect to derive our returns primarily from the difference between the interest we earn on loans we invest in and our cost of capital, as well as the returns from