Nancy Chemtob
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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|birth_name=Nancy Ruthanne Nadel
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1965|4|2}}
|birth_place=Long Island, New York, U.S.
|nationality=American
|education=Syracuse University
University of Miami School of Law (JD)
|occupation=Attorney
|spouse={{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Roland Chemtob|1993}}
- {{marriage|Michael Kubin|2018}}
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|children=3
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Nancy Nadel Chemtob (born Nancy Ruthanne Nadel; April 2, 1965) is an American family law attorney specializing in divorces of high-net-worth clients. She is the founder and partner of the law firm Chemtob, Moss, Forman & Beyda LLP.{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/d38ab97b-0abf-4624-8063-80bc48599aa3|title=Divorce lawyers to the wealthy: 'The pandemic has been a real wake-up call'|work=Financial Times|date=October 11, 2020|last=Warwick-Ching|first=Lucy}}
Early life
Chemtob was born on Long Island to a Jewish family. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1987, and received her Juris Doctor from University of Miami School of Law in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.law.miami.edu/news/2012/july/nancy-chemtob-jd-90-heads-largest-matrimonial-law-firm-new-york|title=Nancy Chemtob, JD '90, Heads Largest Matrimonial Law Firm in New York|website=University of Miami School of Law|date=July 6, 2012}}
Career
Chemtob opened her practice in 1997 and Susan Moss, who represented an opposing party in a previous divorce case,{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514153313/https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-routine-divorce-lawyer-new-york-city-wealthy-elite-2021-5|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-routine-divorce-lawyer-new-york-city-wealthy-elite-2021-5|title=A day in the life of a divorce lawyer for NYC's wealthy elite who helps split up millions in assets, deals with bitter rivalries and cheating partners, and always makes it home by 6|work=Business Insider|date=May 13, 2021|last=Ellwood|first=Mark|archive-date=May 14, 2021}} joined her in 2002. In 2009, Chemtob represented a woman in the first same-sex divorce in New York history, before same-sex marriage had been legalized in New York state itself.{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104065640/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/weddings/07FIELD.html|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/weddings/07FIELD.html|title=The Right to Divorce|work=The New York Times |date=June 6, 2009|archive-date=November 4, 2015|last1=Fischler |first1=Marcelle S. }}{{efn|At the time, New York recognized legally performed same-sex marriages that occurred in other states, while a law had been proposed to legalize it in New York.}} Among others, Chemtob represented Mary-Kate Olsen in her pandemic-era divorce from Olivier Sarkozy,{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-mary-kate-olsen-olivier-sarkozy-divorce-settlement-20210113-7rjx6ygflzd6hbesfnjn265uqe-story.html|title=Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have reached a settlement in their divorce, lawyers say|work=New York Daily News|last=Crane-Newman|first=Molly|date=January 13, 2021}} Tory Burch, Annette Lauer, Bobby Flay, Star Jones, Diandra Douglas and Louis CK. Chemtob said she had received a record number of high-profile clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chemtob, Moss, Forman & Beyda LLP was listed among the America's Best Law Firms by U.S. News & World Report in its 2022 edition. She has been profiled in The Financial Times, Town & Country, The New York Times, Hamptons Magazine, and The New Yorker.
Personal life
Chemtob has three sons and three stepsons,{{cite web|url=https://www.centralsynagogue.org/about-us/our-trustees/nancy-chemtob|title=Nancy Chemtob|work=Central Synagogue}} and lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York. She met her first husband, Roland Chemtob, in 1985 (m.1993). She married her second husband, media entrepreneur Michael Kubin, in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://mlhamptons.com/divorce-attorney-nancy-chemtobs-reflection-amid-the-pandemic|title=Divorce Attorney Nancy Chemtob's Reflection Amid The Pandemic|date=July 16, 2020|last=Canelli|first=Isabelle|website=mlhamptons.com|quote=I am a big believer in marriage—proven by the fact that I am now on my second.}}
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Category:People from Long Island
Category:Syracuse University alumni
Category:University of Miami School of Law alumni
Category:New York (state) lawyers
Category:20th-century American women lawyers
Category:20th-century American lawyers
Category:21st-century American women lawyers