SLOAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., Sloan Financial Holdings, Inc., New Africa Management, LLC, New Africa Investment Management, LLC and New Africa Advisers, Inc., Plaintiffs and Cross-Claim Defendants,
New Africa Opportunity Fund, L.P., d/b/a ZM Africa Investment Fund, L.P., Plaintiff-Intervenor and Cross-Claimant
v.
Justin F. BECKETT, Dorika Mamboleo, Mechael Sudarkasa, Theresa Clarke, Maceo K. Sloan, and John Does (1-10), Defendants.

No. 514A03.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 5, 2004.

Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP, by Mark Fox Evens, pro hac vice, Washington, DC; and Brown & Bunch, PLLC, by LeAnn Nease Brown, Chapel Hill, for plaintiff-appellees and defendant-appellee Maceo K. Sloan.

Everett, Gaskins, Hancock & Stevens, LLP, by E.D. Gaskins and Michael J. Tadych, Raleigh; and Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP, by David R. Lagasse, pro hac vice, New York City, for defendant-appellants Justin K. Beckett and Dorika Mamboleo.

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, by Brigida Benitez, pro hac vice, and Anne Harkavy, pro hac vice, Washington, DC; and Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton, by Henry W. Jones, Jr. and Hope Derby Carmichael, Raleigh, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.