Forward-Looking Statements
This report may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which reflect our current views with respect to, among other things, our operations, financial performance and unit repurchases and distribution activities. You can identify these
forward-looking statements by the use of words such as outlook, indicator, believes, expects, potential, continues, may, will, should,
seeks, approximately, predicts, intends, plans, estimates, anticipates or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. We believe these factors
include but are not limited to those described under the section entitled Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form
10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2017 and in this report, as such
factors may be updated from time to time in our periodic filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which are accessible on the SECs website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as
exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this report and in our other periodic filings. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report, and we undertake no
obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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In this report, references to Blackstone, the Partnership, we, us or our
refer to The Blackstone Group L.P. and its consolidated subsidiaries. Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this report to the ownership of Mr. Stephen A. Schwarzman, our founder, and other Blackstone personnel include the
ownership of personal planning vehicles and family members of these individuals.
Blackstone Funds, our
funds and our investment funds refer to the private equity funds, real estate funds, funds of hedge funds, credit-focused funds, collateralized loan obligation (CLO), real estate investment trusts and registered
investment companies that are managed by Blackstone. Our carry funds refers to the private equity funds, real estate funds and certain of the hedge fund solutions and credit-focused funds (with multi-year drawdown, commitment-based
structures that only pay carry on the realization of an investment) that are managed by Blackstone. We refer to our general corporate private equity funds as Blackstone Capital Partners (BCP) funds, our
energy-focused
private equity funds as Blackstone Energy Partners (BEP) funds, our core private equity fund as Blackstone Core Equity Partners (BCEP), our opportunistic investment
platform that invests globally across asset classes, industries and geographies as Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (Tactical Opportunities), our secondary private equity fund of funds business as Strategic Partners Fund Solutions
(Strategic Partners), our infrastructure-focused funds as Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP), our
multi-asset
investment program for eligible high net worth investors offering
exposure to certain of our key illiquid investment strategies through a single commitment as Blackstone Total Alternatives Solution (BTAS) and our capital markets services business as Blackstone Capital Markets (BXCM). We
refer to our real estate opportunistic funds as Blackstone Real Estate
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