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Bayonne, New Jersey, for supply corps school, and then, at the
request of the captain of the base, was assigned to the Naval
Supply Depot, at Bayonne. He served 3 years on active duty with
the Navy, primarily at that Supply Depot, in charge of purchasing
and contracting. Within 2 weeks of separation from service he
was hired by the New York law firm of Jacobs & Persinger, and he
became a partner there in 1961. Petitioner had some experience
in litigation and taxation, but later his practice focused on
corporate financial and commercial transactions. Petitioner
described himself as a member of “the core of the corporate and
corporate finance bar within the Wall Street area * * * [that]
were fairly well known among each other and * * * were constantly
working on deals”. In 1978, he formed a new firm with an
attorney who specialized in real estate transactions, and later
that firm merged into the law firm of Lans, Feinberg, & Cohen
(LFC).
Stuart Becker (Becker) organized and promoted SAB Foam.
Becker was the sole shareholder of Scanbo Management, Ltd.
(Scanbo), which wholly owned SAB Management. Becker served as
the president of SAB Management and principal of Stuart Becker &
Co., P.C. (Becker Co.), an accounting firm that emphasized tax
matters. He does not have an engineering background, and he is
not an expert in plastics materials or plastics recycling.
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