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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-010354"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KREF"
cik: "0001631596"
company_name: "KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T21:24:07.063553+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KKR Real Estate Finance Trust adopts D&O Deferral Plan for RSUs

## Summary
- Plan allows eligible directors and officers to defer receipt of common stock upon vesting of RSUs in 25% increments, subject to Section 409A.
- Deferred stock units credited to accounts; dividend equivalents paid in same form as cash dividends on common stock.
- Distributions may be lump sum or up to ten annual installments at fixed date, termination, or earlier; change in control or death triggers lump sum.
- Plan is unfunded and unsecured; participants are unsecured creditors of the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-010354
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KREF
- cik: 0001631596
- company_name: KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-03-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036122010354/0001140361-22-010354-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036122010354/brhc10035431_8k.htm

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