---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-296690"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TRTX"
cik: "0001630472"
company_name: "TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T11:56:19.401187+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# TPG RE Finance Trust CIO and General Counsel departing; advisory roles through transition

## Summary
- Peter Smith, Chief Investment Officer and VP, and Deborah Ginsberg, General Counsel and Secretary, leave roles effective Dec 15, 2023.
- Both will serve as advisors to an affiliate of the external manager during a planned transition period.
- No successors were named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-296690
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TRTX
- cik: 0001630472
- company_name: TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630472/000119312523296690/0001193125-23-296690-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630472/000119312523296690/d32344d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-296690
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-296690.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-296690.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Smith departed as Chief Investment Officer and Vice President at TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Chief Investment Officer and Vice President
  source text: Effective as of December 15, 2023, Peter Smith, Chief Investment Officer and Vice President of TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. (the “Company”), and Deborah Ginsberg, General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President of the Company, shall no longer serve in their respective roles.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630472/000119312523296690/0001193125-23-296690-index.htm
- Executive change
  Deborah Ginsberg departed as General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President at TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc..
  - Action: departed
  - Role: General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President
  source text: Effective as of December 15, 2023, Peter Smith, Chief Investment Officer and Vice President of TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. (the “Company”), and Deborah Ginsberg, General Counsel, Secretary and Vice President of the Company, shall no longer serve in their respective roles.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630472/000119312523296690/0001193125-23-296690-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.