Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000930236-25-000012
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Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### SCHEDULE 14A
<div align='center'>(RULE 14a-101)</div>

#### SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION

#### Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the

#### Securities Exchange Act of 1934
| Filed by the Registrant:                    |     | ý |
| Filed by a Party other than the Registrant: |     | o |

Check the appropriate box:

| o |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement |

| o |     | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as Permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |

| x |     | Definitive Proxy Statement |

| o |     | Definitive Additional Materials |

| o |     | Soliciting Material under §240.14a-12 |

#### REDWOOD TRUST, INC.
| (Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)                         |
| (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) |

Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

| ý |     | No fee required.                                                                                     |
| o |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.                                                      |
| o |     | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11. |

#### REDWOOD TRUST, INC.

#### One Belvedere Place, Suite 300

#### Mill Valley, California 94941
<div align='center'>(415) 389-7373</div>

#### NOTICE OF 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To the Stockholders of Redwood Trust, Inc.:

You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Redwood Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation, to be held on May 22, 2025 at 8:30 a.m., Pacific time, at the Acqua Hotel, 555 Redwood Highway, Mill Valley, California 94941 (the “Annual Meeting”), for the following purposes:

1. To consider and vote upon the election of Greg H. Kubicek, Christopher J. Abate, Doneene K. Damon, Armando Falcon, Douglas B. Hansen, Debora D. Horvath, Georganne C. Proctor,