---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-022033"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KREF"
cik: "0001631596"
company_name: "KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T08:02:14.642317+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KKR Real Estate Finance Trust holds 2024 annual meeting, elects eight directors

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with majority support; highest vote for Deborah H. McAneny (44.8M for) and lowest for Terrance R. Ahern (39.5M for).
- Deloitte & Touche LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2024 with 56.4M votes for, 134k against, 261k abstentions.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal passed with 44.0M for, 1.3M against, 159k abstaining, 11.3M broker non-votes.
- Broker non-votes of 11.3M shares on director elections and compensation vote.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-022033
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KREF
- cik: 0001631596
- company_name: KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036124022033/0001140361-24-022033-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036124022033/ef20027727_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-24-022033.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. shareholders approved Election of eight directors at the 2024-04-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-19
  source text: Proposal 1 - Election of Directors The following eight individuals were elected to the Company’s Board of Directors to serve as directors until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036124022033/0001140361-24-022033-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2024-04-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-19
  source text: Proposal 3 - Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation The compensation of the named executive officers of the Company was approved on an advisory, non-binding basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036124022033/0001140361-24-022033-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-04-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-19
  source text: Proposal 2 - Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2024 The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036124022033/0001140361-24-022033-index.htm

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