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Related Party Transactions
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Related Party Transactions
15. Related Party Transactions
Affiliate Receivables and Payables
Due from Affiliates and Due to Affiliates consisted of the following:
 
                                                 
    
March 31,
   
December 31,
    
2024
   
2023
Due from Affiliates
      
Management Fees, Performance Revenues, Reimbursable Expenses and Other Receivables from
Non-Consolidated
Entities and Portfolio Companies
   
 $
3,824,853
 
   
 $
3,638,948
 
Due from Certain
Non-Controlling
Interest Holders and Blackstone Employees
   
 
794,877
 
   
 
720,743
 
Accrual for Potential Clawback of Previously Distributed Performance Allocations
   
 
75,494
 
   
 
106,830
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
 $
4,695,224
 
   
 $
4,466,521
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
                        
                        
 
  
March 31,
  
December 31,
 
  
2024
  
2023
Due to Affiliates
  
 
  
 
Due to Certain
Non-Controlling
Interest Holders in Connection with the Tax Receivable Agreements
   
 $
1,622,694
 
   
 $
1,681,516
 
Due to
Non-Consolidated
Entities
   
 
104,066
 
   
 
124,560
 
Due to Certain
Non-Controlling
Interest Holders and Blackstone Employees
   
 
177,654
 
   
 
305,816
 
Accrual for Potential Repayment of Previously Received Performance Allocations
   
 
231,064
 
   
 
281,518
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
 $
2,135,478
 
   
 $
2,393,410
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
Interests of the Founder, Senior Managing Directors, Employees and Other Related Parties
The Founder, senior managing directors, employees and certain other related parties invest on a discretionary basis in the consolidated Blackstone Funds both directly and through consolidated entities. These investments generally are subject to preferential management fee and performance allocation or incentive fee arrangements. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, such investments aggregated $1.7 billion and $1.7 billion, respectively. Their share of the Net Income Attributable to Redeemable
Non-Controlling
and
Non-Controlling
Interests in Consolidated Entities aggregated to $31.9 million and $22.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Contingent Repayment Guarantee
Blackstone and its personnel who have received Performance Allocation distributions have guaranteed payment on a several basis (subject to a cap) to the carry funds of any clawback obligation with respect to the excess Performance Allocation allocated to the general partners of such funds and indirectly received thereby to the extent that either Blackstone or its personnel fails to fulfill its clawback obligation, if any. The Accrual for Potential Repayment of Previously Received Performance Allocations represents amounts previously paid to Blackstone Holdings and
non-controlling
interest holders that would need to be repaid to the Blackstone Funds if the carry funds were to be liquidated based on the fair value of their underlying investments as of March 31, 2024. See Note 16. “Commitments and Contingencies — Contingencies — Contingent Obligations (Clawback).”
Tax Receivable Agreements
Blackstone used a portion of the proceeds from the IPO and other sales of shares to purchase interests in the predecessor businesses from the predecessor owners. In addition, holders of Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units may exchange their Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units for shares of Blackstone common stock on a
one-for-one
basis. The purchase and subsequent exchanges are expected to result in increases in the tax basis of the tangible and intangible assets of Blackstone Holdings and therefore reduce the amount of tax that Blackstone would otherwise be required to pay in the future.
Blackstone has entered into tax receivable agreements with each of the predecessor owners and additional tax receivable agreements have been executed, and will continue to be executed, with senior managing directors and others who acquire Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units. The agreements provide for the payment by the corporate taxpayer to such owners of 85% of the amount of cash savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax that the corporate taxpayers actually realize as a result of the aforementioned increases in tax basis and of certain other tax benefits related to entering into these tax receivable agreements. For purposes of the tax receivable agreements, cash savings in income tax will be computed by comparing the actual income tax liability of the corporate taxpayers to the amount of such taxes that the corporate taxpayers would have been required to pay had there been no increase to the tax basis of the tangible and intangible assets of Blackstone Holdings as a result of the exchanges and had the corporate taxpayers not entered into the tax receivable agreements.
 
Assuming no future material changes in the relevant tax law and that the corporate taxpayers earn sufficient taxable income to realize the full tax benefit of the increased amortization of the assets, the expected future payments under the tax receivable agreements (which are taxable to the recipients) will aggregate $1.6 billion over the next 15 years. The
after-tax
net present value of these estimated payments totals $488.8 million assuming a 15% discount rate and using Blackstone’s most recent projections relating to the estimated timing of the benefit to be received. Future payments under the tax receivable agreements in respect of subsequent exchanges would be in addition to these amounts. The payments under the tax receivable agreements are not conditioned upon continued ownership of Blackstone equity interests by the
pre-IPO
owners and the others mentioned above.
Amounts related to the deferred tax asset resulting from the increase in tax basis from the exchange of Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units to shares of Blackstone common stock, the resulting remeasurement of net deferred tax assets at the Blackstone ownership percentage at the balance sheet date, the due to affiliates for the future payments resulting from the tax receivable agreements and resulting adjustment to partners’ capital are included as Acquisition of Ownership Interests from
Non-Controlling
Interest Holders in the Supplemental Disclosure of
Non-Cash
Investing and Financing Activities in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
Other
Blackstone does business with and on behalf of some of its Portfolio Companies; all such arrangements are on a negotiated basis.
Additionally, please see Note 16. “Commitments and Contingencies — Contingencies — Guarantees” for information regarding guarantees provided to a lending institution for certain loans held by employees.