Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001104659-25-113832
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Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 8-A12B
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-A

FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

REDWOOD TRUST, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Maryland                                 |     |                          68-0329422 |
| (State of incorporation or organization) |     | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |
| One Belvedere Place Suite 300            
 Mill Valley, California                  |     |                               94941 |
| (Address of principal executive offices) |     |                           -Zip Code |

<div align='center'>Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:</div>

| Title of each class          
 to be so registered          |     | Name of each exchange on which 
 each class is to be registered |
| 9.500% Senior Notes Due 2030 |     | The New York Stock Exchange    |

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c) or (e), check the following box.x

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d) or (e), check the following box.¨

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities concurrently with a Regulation A offering, check the following box.¨

<div align='center'>Securities Act registration statement file numbers to which this form relates:

333-285506.

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None.</div>

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

| Item 1. | Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. |

Redwood Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby incorporates
by reference herein the description of its 9.500% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”), to be registered hereunder, set forth
under the heading “Description of the Notes” in the Company’s prospectus supplement, dated November 17, 2025, to
the prospectus, dated March 3, 2025 (the