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not necessarily be taken into account if Blackstone were not a public company. Legal Representation. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Maples and Calder will act as counsel to the Partnership, the General Partner, and the Investment Advisor in connection with this offering of Interests, and represen

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ect beneficial interest in the Interest being acquired by the investor, appears on the Specifically Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in the U.S. Department of the Treasury or in Annex I to U.S. Executive Order 132224 — Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Persons W

National Security Council and Richard Newcomb of the Of- fice of Foreign Assets Control traveled to Saudi Arabia to warn Al Rajhi Bank an

minimum contacts existed since dispute arose from a contract with substantial con- tacts with the forum) (internal quotations and citations omitted); Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 789, 104 S.Ct. 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 804 (1984) (finding personal juris- diction appropriate over non-resident de- fendants who “e

tates. Accordingly, Plaintiffs may rely on their “purposefully directed” theory to establish these mini- mum contacts. But as existed in Burger King, Calder, and the three terrorism cases, Plaintiffs must allege some personal or direct involvement by the Defendants in the conduct giving rise to their clai

nt took ‘intentional * * * tortious, actions’ and ‘knew that the brunt of th[e] injury would be felt’ in the *15 foreign forum.” Jd. at *19, (quoting Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 789-790 (1984)). Even so, the United States argued that the questions presented by the Petition did not warrant review by the

despite plaintiffs’ allegations that United States government officials -- “William Weschler of the National Security Council and Richard Newcomb of the Office of Foreign Assets Control” -- warned Al Rajhi Bank in 1999 “that their financial systems were being manipulated or utilized to fund terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda.”