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PEREIRA v. FARACE

Docket Nos. 03-5053(L), 03-5055(CON).

413 F.3d 330 (2005)

John S. PEREIRA, As Trustee of Trace International Holdings, Inc., & Trace Foam Sub, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Andrea FARACE, Frederick Marcus, Philip Smith, & Karl Winters, Defendants-Appellants, Marshall S. Cogan, Robert Nelson, Saul S. Sherman, & Tambra King, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 30, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore J. Fischkin, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., New York, N.Y. (John P. Campo & John S. Kinzey, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Andrew J. Levander, Dechert LLP, New York, NY (Guy Petrillo, Yun G. Lee & Robert W. Topp, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Andrea Farace.

Brian E. Maas, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC, New York, N.Y. (Wendy Stryker, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Frederick Marcus.

Robert A. Meister, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, New York, N.Y. (John J. Clarke, Jr. & Joshua S. Sohn, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants Philip Smith and Karl Winters.

Martin S. Kaufman & Briscoe R. Smith, Atlantic Legal Foundation, New York, N.Y., for Amicus Curiae Corporate Law Department's Section of the L.A. County Bar Association, in support of Defendant-Appellant Philip Smith.

Before: NEWMAN, McLAUGHLIN, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Judge JON O. NEWMAN concurs in the majority opinion and in a separate opinion.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Andrea Farace, Frederick Marcus, and Philip Smith (collectively, "defendants") are former officers and directors of Trace International Holdings, Inc. ("Trace"), which is now in bankruptcy. Plaintiff John Pereira is the trustee ("Trustee" or "plaintiff") acting on behalf of Trace; he was appointed by the bankruptcy court. Defendants now appeal...

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