About Malcolm

Malcolm S. Taub has decades of experience practicing law and handling complex, high-profile cases. Mr. Taub has handled high-profile divorce and family law matters, specializing in equitable distribution, maintenance, and child custody issues. Mr. Taub has lectured on the issue of pre-nuptial agreements, as well as other family law issues, for various CLE programs.

Mr. Taub is active in sophisticated and complex litigations in both State and Federal courts. Mr. Taub began his practice with Plaintiff’s securities litigation as well as federal anti-trust litigation. His experience also includes corporate dissolution issues and corporate accounting issues. From thereon, Mr. Taub was put in a unique position in handling matrimonial actions when the law changed in 1981 in connection with the equitable distribution. Mr. Taub appeared as a divorce expert in an issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, has been profiled in Divorce Magazine, and has appeared twice on the Late Show with David Letterman. He has acted as an on-camera consultant for CNN affiliates.

In addition, Mr. Taub maintains a very active practice in the area of Art Law. He has been a contributing editor to the Lexis-Nexis Volume relating to Art Law. He has lectured extensively in the area of major art transactions and has also taught a similar CLE program. He has structured art transactions involving tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Taub was featured as a guest lecturer at the Chelsea Art Museum as part of its Winter-Spring Lectures for Collectors: “Legal Issues Relating to the Purchase and Sale of Art.”

Mr. Taub has been involved with the ownership, operation, and syndication of real estate in New York City. He has been involved in every aspect of such transactions, including financings, leasing, and the structuring of such syndications. He has acted as a consultant to the New York Stock Exchange in its Market Surveillance Department and has presented seminars and training sessions regarding methods of improving market surveillance techniques for the NYSE.

Mr. Taub has been on the Board of Trustees of the Gateway Schools of New York. These are specialized schools that provide education to learning-disabled children. He has been an active member on the Board of Directors of Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded corporation performing stem cell research in the field of Parkinson’s Disease as well as ALS.

Mr. Taub has also acted as an adjunct professor at Long Island University, Marymount Manhattan College, and New York University Real Estate Institute.

Mr. Taub has been a member of the Matrimonial Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York.