Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000930236-25-000012
Chunk: 99

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 99
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 Redwood.

“Good reason” for purposes of Mr. Abate, Mr. Robinson, Ms. Carillo, Mr. Stone, and Ms. Macomber’s employment agreements is defined as the occurrence, without the executive’s written consent, of (i) a material reduction in the executive’s responsibilities, title, duties or authority; (ii) a reduction in the executive’s base salary or target annual bonus, or a material reduction by Redwood in the value of the executive’s total compensation package if such a reduction is not made in proportion to an across-the-board reduction of all senior executives of Redwood; (iii)

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the relocation of the executive’s principal office to a location not within a designated area in proximity to the executive’s current principal office; (iv) a failure at any time to renew the employment agreement; (v) the complete liquidation of Redwood; or (vi) in the event of a merger, consolidation, transfer, or closing of a sale of all or substantially all the assets of Redwood, the failure of the successor company to affirmatively adopt the employment agreement.

In the event of a “change of control” (as defined below) in which the surviving or acquiring corporation does not assume outstanding long-term equity-based incentive awards and other long-term incentive awards or substitute equivalent awards, outstanding long-term equity-based incentive awards and other long-term incentive awards for all the executives will immediately vest and become exercisable.

In the event of a “change of control” in which outstanding long-term equity-based incentive awards and other long-term incentive awards are assumed or substituted, then acceleration only would occur upon a qualifying employment termination as specified in the award agreement for such award or the executives’ employment agreements. The number or amount of any outstanding performance-based long-term equity-based incentive awards or other long-term incentive awards eligible to vest will be determined by reference to the applicable performance goals for each such award, pro-rated on an annualized basis to reflect the shortened performance period.

In addition, in the event of a termination due to the executive’s death or disability, the employment agreements with Mr. Abate, Mr. Robinson, Ms. Carillo, Mr. Stone, and Ms. Macomber provide for (i) the payment to the executive or his or her estate of (a) the executive’s base salary to the date of termination, and (b) the executive’s target annual bonus for the year, prorated to the date of termination (as well as