Henry Kravis

NEW YORK, March 14- The founders of Carlyle Group LP received $57.6 million each in dividends from their stake in the private equity firm and executive pay in 2012, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday, down from $137.8 million in 2011..

BERLIN, Feb 28- KKR& Co. LP has agreed to charge the Washington State Investment Board a super-low 1 percent annual management fee on the pension fund's $250 million follow-on commitment to the firm's flagship fund, KKR North American Fund XI LP, according to a source familiar with the terms.

NEW YORK, Feb 7- KKR& Co LP said the fourth quarter of 2012 was its strongest yet as a publicly listed alternative asset manager, as exits from private equity investments delivered a record amount of cash for itself and its investors.

"Our private equity portfolio and our balance sheet both appreciated 24 percent in 2012, outperforming the S&P 500 and MSCI World indices by over 700 basis points," Henry Kravis and George Roberts, KKR's co-founders and co-chief executives, said in a statement on Thursday.

NEW YORK, Jan 25- Billionaire businessman Henry Kravis and his wife have sued art collector Donald L. Bryant Jr. over three paintings by the renowned artist Jasper Johns that the Kravises say they bought jointly with Bryant with the intention of sharing them, then eventually donating them to New York's Museum of Modern Art.

HONG KONG/ NEW YORK, Dec 17- KKR& Co L.P. has finished raising $6 billion for its second pan- Asia fund, according to sources, the largest private equity pool ever assembled for the region, with strong demand from pension funds and endowments seeking emerging market returns.

*NH Hoteles' shares jump 5 percent. MADRID, Oct 26- Spain's NH Hoteles has received a preliminary offer from U.S. private equity firm KKR to buy bonds that can be converted into shares of the debt-laden hotel chain.

*$139 billion in dry powder in Asia, $130 bln new funds being raised-Preqin. Kravis, who co-founded KKR& Co LP in 1976 with his cousin George Roberts and colleague Jerry Kohlberg, was in Singapore to open the firm's new office there- its seventh in Asia since entering the region in 2005..

SINGAPORE, Oct 25- KKR's Southeast Asia head Ming Lu said the private equity firm has invested $1 billion in Southeast Asia since 2005 and could invest more than that amount in the region over the next five years. The consumer sector and financial services were among the attractive areas in Southeast Asia, Lu said.

*$139 billion in dry powder in Asia, $130 bln new funds being raised-Preqin. HONG KONG, Oct 25- The public appearance of Henry Kravis at KKR's new Singapore office underscores the private equity industry's growing interest in Southeast Asia, at a time when regional funds are growing and deal volumes are falling.