Company: RWT-PA
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000930236-25-000007
Chunk: 177

Company: REDWOOD TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 177
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 other technology initiatives), and higher rates of delinquency, default, foreclosure and litigation (with respect to residential investor mortgage loans and subordinate-lien financing). Our RWT Horizons® venture investing platform also exposes us to new and different risks, including risks related to making equity investments in early-stage companies that may not have substantial operating histories, and initiatives we have completed and may continue to pursue to form joint ventures or investment vehicles or funds with third-party investors to purchase loans, HEI, or other assets from us or from other sources – and to earn fees, incentives or other income in connection with these initiatives – may not be successful, including any efforts we make to engage in the investment advisory business. Moreover, investing in, and expanding the scope of, our operating platforms and pursuing these types of initiatives can expose us to new and different risks, including regulatory and compliance risks, as well as operational risks. As a result, these new initiatives could fail to improve the long-term profitability of Redwood, could fail to result in capital being available for or deployed into more profitable businesses and investments, could result in dilutive issuances of equity, warrants, or options to acquire equity, or debt securities convertible into equity to fund our business and investment activities, or could otherwise damage our business, our reputation, our ability to access financing, and our ability to raise capital, or could have other unforeseen consequences, any or all of which could result in a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations in the future. Decisions we make in the future about our business strategy and investments, as well as decisions about raising capital or returning capital to shareholders or investors (through dividends or repurchases of common stock, preferred stock, or convertible or other debt), could also fail to improve our business and results of operations.

To the extent they disagree with decisions we have made about our business, strategy, investments, financing or capital raising, significant activist stockholders may attempt to effect changes at our company, which could impact the pursuit of business strategies and initiatives and could negative adversely affect our business and results of operations. Campaigns by stockholders to effect changes at publicly-traded companies are sometimes led by investors seeking to increase short-term stockholder value through actions such as financial restructuring, increased debt, special dividends, stock repurchases or sales of assets or the entire company. Responding to proxy contests and other actions by activist stockholders can be costly and time-consuming and could divert the attention of our board of directors and senior management from the management of our operations and the