The Appellate Division, First Department, last week ruled on five appeals from Manhattan’s Commercial Division, upholding three and reversing two.

A panel unanimously affirmed rulings by Justices Saliann Scarpulla and Barbara Kapnick in Matter of Denis M. Field v. BDO USA, 600010/12, refusing to grant motions by Denis Field, former CEO of BDO Seidman, to vacate an arbitrator’s decision denying him attorneys fees he claimed he was owed by the tax and accounting firm.