Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001104659-25-019981
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Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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Item 8.01      Other Events.  

Filing of Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus Supplement

On
March 3, 2025, Redwood Trust, Inc. (the “ Company”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC”)
a shelf registration statement (File No. 333-285506 ) (the “ Registration Statement”),
which became immediately effective upon filing.

On
March 4, 2025, the Company also filed with the SEC a prospectus supplement, dated March 4, 2025, pursuant to Rule 424(b) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the Company’sDirect Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plan (the
“ Plan”), which is designed to provide the Company’s existing stockholders and interested new investors with a method
of purchasing shares of the Company’s common stock and investing all or a percentage of their cash dividends in additional shares
of common stock.

In connection with the filing of the prospectus
supplement, the Company is filing as Exhibit 5.1 hereto the opinion of its Maryland counsel, Venable LLP, regarding the legality
of the validity of the securities being registered under the prospectus supplement. Additionally, the Company is filing as Exhibit 8.1
hereto an opinion of its counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP, with respect to certain tax matters.

This Current Report shall not constitute an offer
to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation
or sale would be unlawful.