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Item 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
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The following table summarizes the aggregate fees for professional services provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and their respective affiliates (collectively, the “Deloitte Entities”):
| Year Ended December 31, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Blackstone Group L.P. | Blackstone Entities, Principally Fund Related (c) | Blackstone Funds, Transaction Related (d) | Total | |||||||||||||
| (Dollars in Thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 9,500 | (a) | $ | 37,306 | $ | — | $ | 46,806 | |||||||
| Audit-Related Fees | — | 191 | 25,473 | 25,664 | ||||||||||||
| Tax Fees | 1,316 | (b) | 54,216 | 14,145 | 69,677 | |||||||||||
| All Other Fees | — | 739 | — | 739 | ||||||||||||
| $ | 10,816 | $ | 92,452 | $ | 39,618 | $ | 142,886 | |||||||||
| Year Ended December 31, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Blackstone Group L.P. | Blackstone Entities, Principally Fund Related (c) | Blackstone Funds, Transaction Related (d) | Total | |||||||||||||
| (Dollars in Thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 9,715 | (a) | $ | 35,189 | $ | — | $ | 44,904 | |||||||
| Audit-Related Fees | — | 252 | 19,437 | 19,689 | ||||||||||||
| Tax Fees | 1,100 | (b) | 51,274 | 13,974 | 66,348 | |||||||||||
| All Other Fees | — | 168 | — | 168 | ||||||||||||
| $ | 10,815 | $ | 86,883 | $ | 33,411 | $ | 131,109 | |||||||||
| (a) | Audit Fees consisted of fees for (1) the audits of our consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and services attendant to, or required by, statute or regulation, (2) reviews of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and (3) consents and other services related to SEC and other regulatory filings. |
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| (b) | Tax Fees consisted of fees for services rendered for tax compliance and tax planning and advisory services. |
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| (c) | The Deloitte Entities also provide audit, audit-related and tax services (primarily tax compliance and related services) to certain Blackstone funds and other corporate entities. |
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| (d) | Audit-Related and Tax Fees included merger and acquisition due diligence services provided in connection with potential acquisitions of portfolio companies for investment purposes primarily to certain private equity and real estate funds managed by Blackstone in its capacity as the general partner. In addition, the Deloitte Entities provide audit, audit-related, tax and other services to the portfolio companies, which are approved directly by the portfolio company’s management and are not included in the amounts presented here. |
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Our audit committee charter, which is available on our website at http://ir.blackstone.com under “Corporate Governance,” requires the audit committee to approve in advance all audit and non-audit related services to be provided by our independent registered public accounting firm in accordance with the audit and non-audit related services pre-approval policy. All services reported in the Audit, Audit-Related, Tax and All Other Fees categories above were approved by the audit committee.
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