Marc S. KIRSCHNER, as Trustee of the Refco Litigation Trust, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
KPMG LLP, Grant Thornton LLP, Mayer Brown LLP, Ingram Micro, Inc., CIM Ventures, Inc., William T. Pigott, Mayer Brown International LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Liberty Corner Capital Strategies, LLC, Banc of America Securities, LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
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Heard: September 18, 2009.
Certified to New York Court of Appeals: December 28, 2009.
Philip D. Anker , Lori A. Martin , John V.H. Pierce , Anne K. Small , Jeremy S. Winer, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for Defendants-Appellees Banc of America Securities, Credit Suisse Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities.
Anthony Candido , Clifford Chance LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for Defendant-Appellee Mayer Brown International.
James J. Capra, Jr. , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, N.Y., Kenneth Y. Turnbull , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief, for Defendant-Appellee PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Robert F. Wise, Jr. , Paul Spagnoletti , Davis Polk & Wardell LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for Defendants-Appellees Ingram Micro, Inc. and CIM Ventures, Inc.
Kevin H. Marino , John D. Tortorella , Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C., Chatham, N.J., on the brief, for Defendants-Appellees William Pigott and Liberty Corner Capital Strategies.
Before: NEWMAN, B.D. PARKER, and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the standing of the trustee of a bankrupt corporation's litigation trust to sue third parties who allegedly assisted corporate insiders in defrauding the corporation's creditors. The appeal primarily raises the issue of whether, under New York law, the acts of the corporate insiders can be imputed to the corporation, in which event, pursuant to the so-called Wagoner rule, the trustee for a debtor corporation...
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