Divorce-Related Tax Issues: An Attorney's Guide for Avoiding Surprise Liabilities and Costly Mistakes

Mr. Gottlieb heads MSG’s Business Valuation, Forensic Accounting & Litigation Support Practice based in New York City, focusing on financial matters within litigation. His extensive credentials highlight expertise in shareholder disputes, business dissolutions, economic damage assessments, post-merger conflicts, complex matrimonial cases, and forensic accounting, including fraud examinations. Within financial investigations, Mr. Gottlieb oversees appraisals of closely held businesses, uncovering asset misappropriations, investigating financial misstatements, and analyzing corporate financial records, involving meticulous scrutiny of documents, bank statements, and record reconstruction. His commitment to professional standards involves evaluating financial statements against Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), often in litigations concerning fraud, contractual breaches, and various financial claims.

Mr. Gottlieb is an attorney, certified public accountant, and has earned a master’s degree in forensic accounting. He has represented private equity firms, public companies, and their portfolio companies in cases involving failed mergers, fraud, contractual disputes, including cases in the Delaware Chancery Court. Prior to joining MSG, Mr. Gottlieb worked as a corporate governance & litigation associate at Brown Rudnick LLP , Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP. He was as a health law and policy fellow at Brooklyn Law School and as a judicial intern for the Honorable James d'Auguste of the New York State Supreme Court, Civil Division.