---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-016926"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KREF"
cik: "0001631596"
company_name: "KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T00:35:00.278973+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KKR Real Estate Finance Trust stockholders approve directors, auditor, pay, and 2025 incentive plan

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected with strong support; Irene M. Esteves had 12.8M votes withheld.
- Deloitte & Touche ratified as auditor for FY2025: 55.3M for, 0.1M against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 44.2M for, 2.3M against.
- 2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan approved: 45.5M for, 0.9M against; plan details incorporated by reference.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-016926
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KREF
- cik: 0001631596
- company_name: KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036125016926/0001140361-25-016926-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1631596/000114036125016926/ef20048247_8k.htm

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