---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-043003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFC"
cik: "0001411342"
company_name: "Ellington Financial Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:23:19.267777+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellington Financial to offer $400M senior unsecured notes due 2030

## Summary
- $400M aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes due 2030 offered through subsidiaries.
- Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Ellington Financial Inc.
- Net proceeds for general corporate purposes including repaying repurchase agreements and funding asset purchases.
- Offered only to qualified institutional buyers (Rule 144A) and non-U.S. persons (Regulation S).
- Notes and guarantee are unregistered under the Securities Act.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-043003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFC
- cik: 0001411342
- company_name: Ellington Financial Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828025043003/0001628280-25-043003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828025043003/efc-20250929.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-043003.txt

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