Blackstone Filing — Details on Comp, Part II

Part I is here, from their late March filing. Choice excerpts below from their 6/21 S-1 for the most part … we have tried to italicize the areas that we believe to be new:

  • Senior Managing Director Comp:
  • Senior Managing Director Comp ($, thousands)
    SMD Comp Year Ended 12/31/06 3 Mos Ended 3/31/07
    Aggregate Performance Compensation Payments to our Senior Managing Directors (1) 315,573 142,302
    Issuances of Unvested Blackstone Holdings Partnership Units to our Senior Managing Directors and Selected Other Individuals Engaged in Some of Our Businesses (2) 2,330,957 580,286
    Carry Plan Participations to our Senior Managing Directors (3) 160,567 102,342
    Total Increase to SMD Comp 2,807,097 824,930
    Performance Comp per SMD (assuming 60) 5,260 2,372
    Total per SMD (assuming 60) 38,849 9,671
    Source: Blackstone SEC Filing.
  • One Helluva Expense Report: “Expense Reimbursements As a privately-owned firm, we have initially incurred or made payments for certain personal expenses on behalf of Messrs. Schwarzman and Peterson, which expenses were reimbursed by the executives. The maximum amounts outstanding under these arrangements in 2006 were $852,838 for Mr. Schwarzman and $345,870 for Mr. Peterson. No such amounts remain outstanding and the firm will no longer incur or make similar payments in respect of personal expenses.”
  • Take My Jet, No Really: “Firm Use of Our Founders’ Private Aircraft Mr. Schwarzman owns an airplane and Messrs. Schwarzman and Peterson jointly own a helicopter that we use for business purposes in the course of our operations. Messrs. Schwarzman and Peterson paid for the purchase of these aircraft themselves and bear all operating, personnel and maintenance costs associated with their operation. The hourly payments we made to Mr. Schwarzman and Mr. Peterson for such use were based on current market rates for chartering private aircraft. We paid $1,544,320, $1,037,925 and $1,032,170 to Mr. Schwarzman in 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively, for the use of his airplane and we paid $158,500, $306,210 and $198,905 to Mr. Schwarzman and Mr. Peterson in 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively, for the use of their jointly-owned helicopter.”
  • On Peon Pay: “At the time of this offering and under our 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, we intend to grant 37,730,343 deferred restricted common units to our non-senior managing director professionals, analysts and senior finance and administrative personnel, to whom we refer collectively as ‘Non-SMD Professionals,’ (of which 4,855,255 will be vested at the time of this offering) and 1,045,540 phantom deferred restricted common units to our other non-senior managing director employees, to whom we refer collectively as ‘Non-SMD Employees’ … The Blackstone Group L.P. common units will be delivered, in one or more installments over a period of up to eight years following this offering; provided that a specified percentage of the common units which would otherwise be delivered on each such vesting date will be retained, and delivery further deferred, until specified dates, subject to the Non-SMD Professional’s compliance with the restrictive covenants that are applicable to such Non-SMD Professional … The first such scheduled delivery date will occur on or after the first anniversary of the IPO. We will not make any distributions with respect to unvested deferred restricted common units granted to our Non-SMD Professionals in connection with the IPO Date Award. Unless otherwise determined by us, upon the termination of a Non-SMD Professional’s employment with us for any reason, all unvested deferred restricted common units granted to the Non-SMD Professional as part of the IPO Date Award and then held by the Non-SMD Professional will be immediately forfeited without any payment or consideration.”

1 Comment(s)

  1. On Jun 29, 2007, Al said:

    You dont suppose the fact the Schwarzman and Peterson own and airplance could account for Maria Bartiromo speaking on the Blackstone RahRah team……….and smiley touchy feely was designed to plan to use the plane which I guess is a Jet.

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