Blackstone (BX) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2020.

RegistrationNo. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORMS-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

The Blackstone Group Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

345 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10154

Telephone:(212) 583-5000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of principal executive offices)

The Blackstone Group Inc. Amended and Restated 2007 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

(Name and address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 12,315,765 shares of Common Stock of The Blackstone Group Inc. (the “Company”) reserved for issuance under the Plan. These additional shares of Common Stock are additional securities of the same class as other securities for which an original registration statement (FileNo.  333-143948) on FormS-8 was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) onJune 21, 2007 and additional registration statements (File No. 333-157635, File No. 333-165115, File No. 333-172451, File No. 333-179775, File No. 333-186999, File No. 333-194234, File No. 333-202359, File No. 333-209758, File No. 333-216225, File No. 333-223346 and File No. 333-230020) were filed with the Commission onMarch  2, 2009,March  1, 2010,February 25, 2011,February 28, 2012,March 1, 2013,February 28, 2014,February 27, 2015,February 26, 2016,February 24, 2017,March 1, 2018 andMarch 1, 2019, respectively (the “Original Registration Statements”). OnJuly 1, 2019, in connection with the conversion of The Blackstone Group L.P. from a Delaware limited partnership to a Delaware corporation, The Blackstone Group Inc., the Company filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (S-8 POS to Registration StatementsFile No. 333-143948,File No. 333-157635,File No. 333-165115,File No. 333-172451,File No. 333-179775,File No. 333-186999,File No. 333-194234,File No. 333-202359,File No. 333-209758,File No. 333-216225,File No. 333-223346,File No. 333-230020.) to each of the Original Registration Statements to reflect the adoption by the Company of the Original Registration Statements as its own registration statements for all purposes of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These additional shares of Common Stock have become reserved for issuance as a result of the operation of the “evergreen” provision of the Plan, which provides that the total number of shares subject to the Plan will be increased on the first day of each fiscal year pursuant to a specified formula.

Pursuant to General Instruction E to FormS-8, the contents of such earlier registration statements, as amended by the post-effective amendments, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, except that the provisions contained in Part II of such earlier registration statements are modified as set forth in this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed with the Commission by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, are hereby incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

All documents that the Company subsequently files pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents (other than information furnished pursuant to Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K, unless expressly stated otherwise therein).

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

The validity of the Common Stock will be passed upon for us by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Washington, D.C. An investment vehicle comprised of selected partners of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, members of their families, related persons and others owns an interest representing less than 1% of the capital commitments of funds affiliated with the Company.

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The following exhibits are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement:

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on FormS-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of New York, State of New York on February 28, 2020.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned directors and officers of the Registrant, which is filing a Registration Statement on FormS-8 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. 20549 under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 hereby constitute and appoint Stephen A. Schwarzman, Jonathan D. Gray, Hamilton E. James, Michael S. Chae and John G. Finley, and each of them, the individual’s true and lawfulattorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign such Registration Statement and any or all amendments, including post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and all other documents in connection therewith to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact as agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 28th day of February, 2020.

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