Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-076183
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Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on August 11, 2025</div>

Registration No. 333-

<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

REDWOOD TRUST, INC.

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

| Maryland                                         
 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or 
 organization)                                    | 68-0329422                           
 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |

<div align='center'>One Belvedere Place, Suite 300

Mill Valley, CA 94941

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Redwood Trust, Inc. Amended and Restated Executive Deferred Compensation Plan

(Full title of the plan)</div>

| Christopher J. Abate                                 
 Chief Executive Officer                              
 Redwood Trust, Inc.                                  
 One Belvedere Place, Suite 300                       
 Mill Valley, CA 94941                                
 (415) 389-7373                                       | Copies to:                         
 Julian T.H. Kleindorfer, Esq.      
 Lewis W. Kneib, Esq.               
 J. Ross McAloon, Esq.              
 Latham & Watkins LLP               
 355 South Grand Avenue             
 Los Angeles, California 90071-1560 
 (213) 485-1234                     |
| (Name and address, including zip code, and telephone 
 number, including area code, of agent for service)   |                                    |

Indicate by check mark whether
the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging
growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting
company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| x Large           
 accelerated filer | ¨ Accelerated 
 filer         | ¨ Non-accelerated 
 filer             | ¨ Smaller         
 reporting company |
|                   |               |                   | ¨ Emerging        
 growth company    |

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