In re Nomura Securities International, Inc.

— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Schoenfeld, J.) entered May 5, 1995, which denied petitioners’ application to disqualify respondent’s counsel in the parties’ arbitration proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The IAS Court properly denied petitioners’ motion to disqualify counsel, as their claims that a conflict of interest exists do not bear careful scrutiny (see, Matter of Abrams [John Anonymous], 62 NY2d 183, 196). Petitioners’ assertion that counsel will be forced to cross-examine two other individuals whom it also represents, appears remote, at best. Similarly,…