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TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc.CIK 0001630472 · Real Estate Investment Trusts
TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. is a commercial real estate finance company externally managed by TPG RE Finance Trust Management, L.P., an affiliate of TPG. Our principal executive offices are located at 888 Seventh Avenue, 35th Floor, New York, New York 10106. We are organized as a holding company and… About this business →
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About TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed February 17, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business.
Company and Organization
TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. is a commercial real estate finance company externally managed by TPG RE Finance Trust Management, L.P., an affiliate of TPG. Our principal executive offices are located at 888 Seventh Avenue, 35th Floor, New York, New York 10106. We are organized as a holding company and conduct our operations primarily through TPG RE Finance Trust Holdco, LLC (“Holdco”), a wholly owned Delaware limited liability company, and Holdco’s direct and indirect subsidiaries. We conduct our operations as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. We generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income taxes on our REIT taxable income to the extent that we annually distribute all of our REIT taxable income to stockholders and maintain our qualification as a REIT. We also operate our business in a manner that permits us to maintain an exclusion or exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act.
We operate our business as one segment. Our principal business activity is to directly originate and acquire a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate-related assets, consisting primarily of first mortgage loans and senior participation interests in first mortgage loans secured by institutional-quality properties in primary and select secondary markets in the United States.
Manager
We are externally managed by our Manager, TPG RE Finance Trust Management, L.P., an affiliate of TPG. TPG is a leading global alternative asset manager with $303 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025. TPG offers a broad range of investment strategies across the alternative asset management landscape, primarily in private equity, credit, and real estate. Our Manager manages our investments and our day-to-day business and affairs in conformity with our investment guidelines and other policies that are approved and monitored by our board of directors. Our Manager is responsible for, among other matters, the selection, origination or purchase and sale of our portfolio investments, our financing activities and providing us with investment advisory services. Our Manager is also responsible for our day-to-day operations and performs (or causes to be performed) such services and activities relating to our investments and business and affairs as may be appropriate. Our investment decisions are approved by an investment committee of our Manager that is comprised of senior investment professionals of TPG, including senior investment professionals of TPG’s Real Estate platform and TPG’s executive committee.
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TPG’s Real Estate platform includes the following: (1) TPG Real Estate Partners, (2) TPG Real Estate Thematic Advantage Core-Plus, (3) TPG AG U.S. Real Estate, (4) TPG AG Europe Real Estate, (5) TPG Asia Real Estate, (6) TPG Net Lease, (7) TPG Real Estate Credit Opportunities and two associated funds-of-one (collectively, the “TRECO Funds”), and (8) us. Collectively, TPG's Real Estate platform included more than $38.2 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025. We and the TRECO Funds are TPG's real estate credit investment vehicles. The TRECO Funds are private credit vehicles, with investment mandates focused on opportunistic real estate credit investing. As of December 31, 2025, the TRECO Funds had aggregate commitments of $2.1 billion.
TPG's Real Estate platform includes teams that work across TPG offices in New York, San Francisco and London, and representative offices in Atlanta and Chicago, and consisted of a total of 134 investment professionals as of December 31, 2025.
Our chief executive officer, president and interim chief financial officer are senior professionals within TPG's Real Estate platform. None of our executive officers, our Manager, or other personnel supplied to us by our Manager is obligated to dedicate any specific amount of time to our business. Our Manager is subject to the supervision and oversight of our board of directors and has only such functions and authority as our board of directors delegates to it. Pursuant to a management agreement between our Manager and us (our “Management Agreement”), our Manager is entitled to receive a base management fee, an incentive fee, and certain expense reimbursements.
See Note 10 to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Form 10-K for more detail on the terms of the Management Agreement.
Investment Strategy
Our investment objective is to directly originate and acquire a diversified portfolio of commercial real estate-related credit assets, consisting primarily of first mortgage loans and senior participation interests in first mortgage loans secured by institutional-quality properties in primary and select secondary markets in the United States. We invest primarily in commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate-related debt instruments, including, but not limited to, the following:
•Commercial Mortgage Loans. We focus primarily on directly originating and selectively acquiring first mortgage loans. These loans are secured by high quality commercial real estate properties undergoing some form of transition and value creation, such as retenanting, refurbishment or other form of repositioning, may vary in duration, predominantly bear interest at a floating rate, may provide for regularly scheduled principal amortization and typically require a balloon payment of principal at maturity. These investments may encompass a whole commercial mortgage loan or may include a pari passu participation within a commercial mortgage loan.
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•Other Commercial Real Estate-Related Debt Instruments. From time to time we may invest in other commercial real estate-related debt instruments, subject to maintaining our qualification as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes and exclusion or exemption from regulation under the Investment Company Act, including, but not limited to, subordinate mortgage interests, mezzanine loans, secured real estate securities, note financing, preferred equity and miscellaneous debt instruments. We have in the past invested in short-term, primarily investment grade collateralized loan obligations (“CRE CLOs”) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”).
The commercial mortgage loans we target for origination or acquisition typically include, but are not limited to, the following characteristics:
•Unpaid principal balance greater than $50.0 million;
•As-is loan-to value (“LTV”) of less than 75% with respect to individual properties;
•Floating rate loans tied to the one-month U.S. dollar-denominated Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“Term SOFR”) and credit spreads of 250 to 400 basis points over the benchmark interest rate;
•Secured by properties that are: (1) primarily in the multifamily/housing, industrial, hospitality, office and mixed-use real estate sectors; (2) expected to reach stabilization within 36 months of the origination or acquisition date; and (3) located in primary and select secondary markets in the U.S. that we believe have attractive economic conditions and commercial real estate fundamentals, such as growth in employment and household formation, medical infrastructure, universities and attractive cultural and lifestyle amenities; and
•Well-capitalized sponsors with experience in particular real estate sectors and geographic markets.
We believe that our current investment strategy provides significant opportunities to our stockholders for attractive risk-adjusted returns over time through cash distributions and capital appreciation. However, to capitalize on investment opportunities and returns at different points in the economic and real estate investment cycle, we may modify, expand or change our investment strategy by targeting other assets with debt characteristics, such as subordinate mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, real estate securities and note financings, in each case subject to any duties to offer or other contractual obligations to other funds managed by TPG. We may also target assets with equity-linked characteristics, or forms of direct equity ownership of commercial real estate properties, in either case subject to any duties to offer or other contractual obligations to other funds managed by TPG. We believe that the flexibility of our investment strategy, supported by our Manager’s significant commercial real estate experience and the extensive resources of TPG and TPG's Real Estate platform, will allow us to take advantage of continued changing market conditions to maximize risk-adjusted returns to our stockholders.
We believe that the diversification of our investment portfolio, our ability to actively manage those investments, and the flexibility of our strategy positions us to generate attractive returns for our stockholders in a variety of market conditions over the long term.
Investment Portfolio
Our interest-earning assets are comprised substantially of a portfolio of floating rate, first mortgage loans and contiguous mezzanine loans. As of December 31, 2025, our balance sheet loan portfolio consisted of 50 loans held for investment totaling $4.3 billion of commitments and an unpaid principal balance of $4.1 billion, with a weighted average credit spread of 3.2%.
As of December 31, 2025, our balance sheet loan portfolio had a weighted average all-in yield of 7.1% and a weighted average term to extended maturity (assuming all extension options are exercised by our borrowers) of 3.0 years. As of December 31, 2025, 99.7% of our loan commitments were floating rate, of which 100.0% were first mortgage loans. In two instances, a first mortgage loan and contiguous mezzanine loan are both owned by us. As of December 31, 2025, our balance sheet loan portfolio had a weighted average LTV of 65.7% and, subject to the satisfaction of certain borrower milestones, $173.6 million of unfunded loan commitments.
We may hold real estate owned (“REO”) as a result of taking title to a loan's collateral. As of December 31, 2025, we owned two office properties and four multifamily properties with an aggregate carrying value of $237.7 million.
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Loan Portfolio
The following table details overall statistics for our loans held for investment portfolio as of December 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands):
Balance sheet portfolio
Total loan exposure(1)
Number of loans5050
Floating rate loans99.7 %99.7 %
Total loan commitment(1)
$4,290,603$4,290,603
Unpaid principal balance(2)
$4,118,050$4,118,050
Unfunded loan commitments(3)
$173,595$173,595
Amortized cost$4,103,022$4,103,022
Weighted average credit spread(4)
3.2 %3.2 %
Weighted average all-in yield(4)
7.1 %7.1 %
Weighted average term to extended maturity (in years)(5)
3.03.0
Weighted average LTV(6)
65.7 %65.7 %
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(1)In certain instances, we create structural leverage through the co-origination or non-recourse syndication of a senior loan interest to a third-party. In either case, the senior mortgage loan (i.e., the non-consolidated senior interest) is not included on our balance sheet. When we create structural leverage through the co-origination or non-recourse syndication of a senior loan interest to a third party, we retain on our balance sheet a mezzanine loan. Total loan exposure encompasses the entire loan portfolio we originated, acquired and financed. We did not have any non-consolidated senior interests as of December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, total loan exposure includes one fixed rate contiguous mezzanine loan. See Item 7 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations–Investment Portfolio Financing–Non-Consolidated Senior Interests” in this Form 10-K for additional information.
(2)Unpaid principal balance includes PIK interest of $1.0 million related to one loan as of December 31, 2025.
(3)Unfunded loan commitments may be funded over the term of each loan, subject in certain cases to an expiration date or a force-funding date, primarily to finance property improvements or lease-related expenditures by our borrowers, and to finance operating deficits during renovation and lease-up.
(4)As of December 31, 2025, all of our loans were indexed to Term SOFR. In addition to credit spread, all-in yield includes the amortization of deferred origination fees, purchase price premium and discount, and accrual of both extension and exit fees. All-in yield for the total portfolio assumes Term SOFR as of December 31, 2025 for weighted average calculations.
(5)Extended maturity assumes all extension options are exercised by our borrowers; provided, however, that our loans may be repaid prior to such date. As of December 31, 2025, based on the unpaid principal balance of our total loan exposure, 56.3% of our loans were subject to yield maintenance or other prepayment restrictions and 43.7% were open to repayment by the borrower without penalty.
(6)Except for construction loans, LTV is calculated for loan originations and existing loans as the total outstanding principal balance of the loan or participation interest in a loan (plus any financing that is pari passu with or senior to such loan or participation interest) as of December 31, 2025, divided by the as-is appraised value of our collateral at the time of origination or acquisition of such loan or participation interest. For construction loans only, LTV is calculated as the total commitment amount of the loan divided by the as-stabilized value of the real estate securing the loan. The as-is or as-stabilized (as applicable) value reflects our Manager’s estimates, at the time of origination or acquisition of the loan or participation interest in a loan, of the real estate value underlying such loan or participation interest determined in accordance with our Manager’s underwriting standards and consistent with third-party appraisals obtained by our Manager.
Our loans held for investment are classified as Bridge, Light Transitional, Moderate Transitional and Construction loans and are secured by a diverse portfolio of properties located in primary and select secondary markets in the U.S. These loan categories are utilized by us to classify, define, and assess our loan investments. Generally, loan investments are classified based on the percentage of total loan commitment represented by deferred fundings. Bridge loans involve deferred fundings of less than 10%, while Light and Moderate Transitional loans involve deferred fundings of 10% to 20%, and over 20%, respectively. Construction loans involve ground-up construction where deferred fundings often represent the majority of the loan commitment amount. Deferred fundings are commonly conditioned on the borrower’s satisfaction of certain collateral performance tests, the completion of specified property improvements, or both. As of December 31, 2025, we held no Construction loans.
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The following charts present, by total loan commitment, the property types securing our balance sheet loans held for investment portfolio and their geographic distribution within the U.S., as of December 31, 2025:
Of our loans held for investment portfolio, 71.8% or $3.1 billion, of total loan commitments were originated after January 1, 2022. The following charts present, by total loan commitment, our loans held for investment portfolio by year of origination and loan category, as of December 31, 2025:
As of December 31, 2025, one loan secured by a multifamily property was on non-accrual status. As of December 31, 2025, our allowance for credit losses for loans held for investment was $77.4 million, or 180 basis points of total loan commitments, including an allowance for credit losses on unfunded loan commitments, compared to $64.0 million, or 187 basis points of total loan commitments, as of December 31, 2024, an increase of $13.5 million from the prior year.
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The following table details our total loan commitments and unpaid principal balance across the top 25 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (“MSA”), as of December 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands).
MSA(1)
MSA rank(1)
Number of loansLoan commitmentUnpaid principal balance
New York City13$618,124 $601,394
Los Angeles23345,732 331,609
San Francisco112287,053 287,053
Phoenix124270,600 243,594
Dallas43228,310 212,625
Atlanta92157,500 149,150
San Antonio242123,000 114,348
Miami82116,575 113,574
Minneapolis16170,000 69,558
St. Louis20165,600 64,838
Baltimore22148,260 48,260
San Diego17146,425 46,425
Denver19131,000 30,317
Other241,882,424 1,805,305
Total50$4,290,603 $4,118,050
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(1)Based on rankings of MSAs according to the United States Census Bureau.
Real Estate Owned
As of December 31, 2025, we owned two office properties and four multifamily properties with an aggregate carrying value of $237.7 million.
For additional information regarding our investment portfolio as of December 31, 2025, see Item 7 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in this Form 10-K.
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Investment Portfolio Financing Strategy
We finance our investment portfolio using secured financing arrangements, including secured credit agreements, secured revolving credit facilities, mortgage loans, asset-specific financing arrangements, and collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”). In certain instances, we may create structural leverage and obtain matched-term financing through the co-origination or non-recourse syndication of a senior loan interest to a third party (a “non-consolidated senior interest”). We may in the future use other forms of leverage, including structured financing other than CLOs, derivative instruments, and public and private secured and unsecured debt issuances by us or our subsidiaries.
We generally seek to match-fund and match-index our investments by minimizing the differences between the durations and indices of our investments and those of our liabilities, while minimizing our exposure to mark-to-market risk. We seek to accomplish this primarily by selecting borrowing arrangements (i) where benchmark interest rates mirror the benchmark rates of our loan investments, (ii) where maturities equal or exceed the expected maturities of our loan investments, and (iii) that do not involve mark-to-market structural features. This may be accomplished in certain instances using derivatives, although no such derivatives are currently used by us. Under certain circumstances, we may determine not to match-fund or match-index our investments, or we may otherwise be unable to do so.
Certain of our borrowing arrangements contain defined mark-to-market provisions that permit our lenders to issue margin calls to the Company only in the event that the collateral properties underlying the Company’s loans pledged to the Company’s lenders experience a non-temporary decline in value (“credit marks”) due to reasons other than capital markets events that result in changing credit spreads for similar borrowing obligations. As of December 31, 2025, 82.0% of our loan investment portfolio financing arrangements contained no mark-to-market provisions.
The following table details the principal balance amounts outstanding for our loan portfolio financing arrangements as of December 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands):
Total indebtednessNon-mark-to-marketMark-to-market
Collateralized loan obligations$2,595,316 $2,595,316 $—
Secured credit agreements591,245 — 591,245
Secured revolving credit facility31,466 31,466 —
Asset-specific financing60,235 60,235 —
Total indebtedness(1)
$3,278,262 $2,687,017 $591,245
Percent of total indebtedness82.0%18.0%
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(1)Excludes deferred financing costs and issuance discount of $20.1 million as of December 31, 2025.
The amount of leverage we employ for particular investments will depend upon our Manager’s assessment of the credit, liquidity, price volatility, and other risks of those assets and the financing counterparties, the availability of particular types of financing at the time, and the financial covenants under our financing arrangements. Our Manager’s decision to use leverage to finance our investments, including the amount of leverage we use, will be at its discretion and is not subject to the approval of our stockholders. We currently expect that our leverage, measured as the ratio of total debt to equity, will generally be less than 3.75:1, subject to compliance with our financial covenants under our secured financing agreements and other contractual obligations. We reserve the right to adjust this range without advance notice to satisfy our corporate finance and risk management objectives.
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Floating Rate Portfolio
Our business model seeks to minimize our exposure to changing interest rates by match-indexing our assets and liabilities using the same benchmark index, which is one-month Term SOFR. Accordingly, rising interest rates will generally increase our net interest income, while declining interest rates will generally decrease our net interest income, subject to the impact of interest rate floors in our mortgage loan investment portfolio. As of December 31, 2025, 99.8% of our loan investments by unpaid principal balance earned a floating rate of interest and were financed with liabilities that require interest payments based on floating rates, which resulted in approximately $0.8 billion of net floating rate exposure, subject to the impact of interest rate floors on all of our floating rate loans and less than 10.0% of our liabilities. The weighted average interest rate floor on the mortgage loan investment portfolio was 2.66% and the weighted average interest rate floor on the liabilities was 0.08% as of December 31, 2025. Our liabilities are generally index-matched to each loan investment asset, resulting in a net exposure to movements in benchmark rates that varies based on the relative proportion of floating rate assets and liabilities.
The following table illustrates the quarterly impact to our net interest income of an immediate increase or decrease of 50 and 100 basis points in the Term SOFR benchmark rates underlying our existing floating rate loans held for investment portfolio and related liabilities as of December 31, 2025 (dollars in thousands):
Due to the floating rate and short-term nature of our loan investment portfolio, we have elected not to employ interest rate derivatives (e.g., interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars or swaptions) to limit our exposure to increasing or declining interest rates, but we may do so in the future.
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Investment Guidelines
Our board of directors has approved the following investment guidelines:
•No investment will be made that would cause us to fail to maintain our qualification as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”);
•No investment will be made that would cause us or any of our subsidiaries to be required to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act;
•Our Manager will seek to invest our capital in our target assets;
•Prior to the deployment of our capital into our target assets, our Manager may cause our capital to be invested in any short-term investments in money market funds, bank accounts, overnight repurchase agreements with primary Federal Reserve Bank dealers collateralized by direct U.S. government obligations and other instruments or investments determined by our Manager to be of high quality;
•Not more than 25% of our Equity (as defined in our Management Agreement) may be invested in any individual investment without the approval of a majority of our independent directors (it being understood, however, that for purposes of the foregoing concentration limit, in the case of any investment that is comprised (whether through a structured investment vehicle or other arrangement) of securities, instruments or assets of multiple portfolio issuers, such investment for purposes of the foregoing limitation will be deemed to be multiple investments in such underlying securities, instruments and assets and not the particular vehicle, product or other arrangement in which they are aggregated); and
•Any investment in excess of $300 million requires the approval of a majority of our independent directors.
These investment guidelines may be amended, supplemented or waived pursuant to the approval of our board of directors (which must include a majority of our independent directors) from time to time, without the approval of our stockholders.
Competition
We operate in a competitive market for the origination and acquisition of attractive investment opportunities. We compete with a variety of institutional investors, including other REITs, debt funds, specialty finance companies, savings and loan associations, banks, mortgage bankers, insurance companies, mutual funds, institutional investors, investment banking firms, financial institutions, private credit funds, private equity and hedge funds, governmental bodies and other entities and may compete with other TPG Funds (such as the TRECO Funds), subject to duties to offer, other contractual obligations and other internal rules. Many of our competitors are substantially larger and have considerably greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. Several of our competitors, including other REITs, have recently raised, or are expected to raise, significant amounts of capital and may have investment objectives that overlap with our investment objectives, which may create additional competition for lending and other investment opportunities. Some of our competitors may have a lower cost of funds and access to funding sources that may not be available to us or are only available to us on substantially less attractive terms. Many of our competitors are not subject to the operating constraints associated with REIT tax compliance or maintenance of an exclusion or exemption from the Investment Company Act. In addition, some of our competitors may have higher risk tolerances or different risk assessments, which could allow them to consider a wider variety of investments and establish more lending relationships than we do. Competition may result in realizing fewer investments, higher prices, acceptance of greater risk, greater defaults, lower yields or a narrower spread of yields over our borrowing costs. In addition, competition for attractive investments could delay the investment of our capital. Furthermore, changes in the financial regulatory regime could decrease the restrictions on banks and other financial institutions and allow them to compete with us for investment opportunities that were previously not available to, or otherwise pursued by, them.
In the face of this competition, we have access to our Manager’s professionals through TPG and TPG's Real Estate platform, and their industry expertise, which provides us with an advantage in competing effectively for attractive investment opportunities, helps us assess risks and determine appropriate pricing for certain potential investments, and affords us access to capital with low costs and other attractive attributes. However, we may not be able to achieve our business goals or expectations due to the competitive risks that we face. For additional information concerning these competitive risks, see Item 1A – “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Lending and Investment Activities—We operate in a competitive market for the origination and acquisition of attractive investment opportunities and competition may limit our ability to originate or acquire attractive investments in our target assets, which could have a material adverse effect on us.”
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Employees
We do not have any employees, nor do we expect to have employees in the future. We are externally managed and are advised by our Manager pursuant to our Management Agreement between our Manager and us. All of our executive officers and certain of our directors are employees of our Manager or its affiliates.
Our success depends to a significant extent upon the ongoing efforts, experience, diligence, skill, and network of business contacts of our executive officers and the other key personnel of TPG provided to our Manager and its affiliates. These individuals evaluate, negotiate, execute, and monitor our loans, other investments and our capitalization, and advise us regarding maintenance of our REIT status and exclusion or exemption from regulation under the Investment Company Act. Our success depends on their skills and management expertise and continued service with our Manager and its affiliates.
Government Regulation
Our operations are subject, in certain instances, to supervision and regulation by U.S. and other governmental authorities, and may be subject to various laws and judicial and administrative decisions imposing various requirements and restrictions, which among other things: (i) regulate credit-granting activities; (ii) establish maximum interest rates, finance charges and other charges; (iii) require disclosures to customers; (iv) govern secured transactions; and (v) set collection, foreclosure, repossession and claims-handling procedures and other trade practices. We are also required to comply with certain provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act that are applicable to commercial loans. We intend to conduct our business so that neither we nor any of our subsidiaries are required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
In recent years, legislators in the United States and in other countries have said that greater regulation of financial services firms is needed, particularly in areas such as risk management, leverage, and disclosure. While we expect that additional new regulations in these areas may be adopted and existing ones may change in the future, it is not possible at this time to forecast the exact nature of any future legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, orders or interpretations, nor their impact upon our future business, financial condition, or results of operations or prospects.
Operating and Regulatory Structure
REIT Qualification
We made an election to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes, commencing with our initial taxable year ended December 31, 2014. We generally must distribute annually at least 90% of our net taxable income, subject to certain adjustments and excluding any net capital gain, in order for us to continue to qualify as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. To the extent that we satisfy this distribution requirement but distribute less than 100% of our net taxable income, we will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at regular corporate rates on our undistributed taxable income. In addition, we will be subject to a 4% nondeductible excise tax if the actual amount that we pay out to our stockholders in a calendar year is less than a minimum amount specified under U.S. federal tax laws. Our qualification as a REIT also depends on our ability to meet various other requirements imposed by the Internal Revenue Code, which relate to organizational structure, diversity of stock ownership, and certain restrictions with regard to the nature of our assets and the sources of our income. Even if we continue to qualify as a REIT, we may be subject to certain U.S. federal excise taxes and state and local taxes on our income and assets. If we fail to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, we will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at regular corporate rates, and applicable state and local taxes, and will not be able to qualify as a REIT for the subsequent four years.
Furthermore, we have multiple taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”), which when active, pay U.S. federal, state, and local income tax on their net taxable income. See Item 1A – “Risk Factors – Risks Related to our REIT Status and Certain Other Tax Items” for additional tax status information.
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Investment Company Act Exclusion or Exemption
We conduct, and intend to continue to conduct, our operations so that neither we nor any of our subsidiaries are required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Complying with provisions that allow us to avoid the consequences of registration under the Investment Company Act may at times require us to forego otherwise attractive opportunities and limit the manner in which we conduct our operations. We conduct our operations so that we are not an “investment company” as defined in Section 3(a)(1)(A) or Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment Company Act. We believe we are not an investment company under Section 3(a)(1)(A) of the Investment Company Act because we do not engage primarily, or hold ourselves out as being engaged primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. Rather, through our wholly owned or majority-owned subsidiaries, we are primarily engaged in non-investment company businesses related to real estate. In addition, we intend to conduct our operations so that we do not come within the definition of an investment company under Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment Company Act because less than 40% of the value of our total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis will consist of “investment securities.” Excluded from the term “investment securities” (as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act) are securities issued by majority-owned subsidiaries that are themselves not investment companies and are not relying on the exclusions from the definition of investment company set forth in Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act. Our interests in wholly owned or majority-owned subsidiaries that qualify for the exclusion pursuant to Section 3(c)(5)(C), as described below, Rule 3a-7, as described below, or another exclusion or exception under the Investment Company Act (other than Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) thereof), do not constitute “investment securities.”
We hold our assets primarily through direct or indirect wholly owned or majority-owned subsidiaries, certain of which are excluded from the definition of investment company pursuant to Section 3(c)(5)(C) of the Investment Company Act. We classify the assets of our subsidiaries relying on the Section 3(c)(5)(C) exemption from the Investment Company Act based upon positions set forth by the SEC staff. Based on such positions, to qualify for the exclusion pursuant to Section 3(c)(5)(C), each such subsidiary generally is required to hold at least (i) 55% of its assets in “qualifying” real estate assets and (ii) at least 80% of its assets in “qualifying” real estate assets and real estate-related assets.
Certain of our subsidiaries rely on Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act. We refer to these subsidiaries as our “CLO subsidiaries.” Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act is available to certain structured financing vehicles that are engaged in the business of holding financial assets that, by their terms, convert into cash within a finite time period and that issue fixed income securities entitling holders to receive payments that depend primarily on the cash flows from these assets, provided that, among other things, the structured finance vehicle does not engage in certain portfolio management practices resembling those employed by management investment companies (e.g., mutual funds). Accordingly, each of these CLO subsidiaries is subject to legal and contractual restrictions regarding their structure and operation. As a result of these restrictions, our CLO subsidiaries may suffer losses on their assets and we may suffer losses on our investments in those CLO subsidiaries.
As a consequence of our seeking to avoid the need to register under the Investment Company Act on an ongoing basis, we and/or our subsidiaries may be restricted from making certain investments or may structure investments in a manner that would be less advantageous to us than would be the case in the absence of such requirements. In particular, a change in the value of any of our assets could negatively affect our ability to avoid the need to register under the Investment Company Act and cause the need for a restructuring of our investment portfolio. For example, these restrictions may limit our and our subsidiaries’ ability to invest directly in mortgage-backed securities that represent less than the entire ownership in a pool of senior mortgage loans, debt and equity tranches of securitizations and certain asset-backed securities, non-controlling equity interests in real estate companies or in assets not related to real estate; however, we and our subsidiaries may invest in such securities to a certain extent. In addition, seeking to avoid the need to register under the Investment Company Act may cause us and/or our subsidiaries to acquire or hold additional assets that we might not otherwise have acquired or held or dispose of investments that we and/or our subsidiaries might not have otherwise disposed of, which could result in higher costs or lower proceeds to us than we would have paid or received if we were not seeking to comply with such requirements. Thus, avoiding registration under the Investment Company Act may hinder our ability to operate solely on the basis of maximizing profits.
If we were required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act, we would become subject to substantial regulation with respect to our capital structure (including our ability to use borrowings), management, operations, transactions with affiliated persons (as defined in the Investment Company Act) and portfolio composition, including disclosure requirements and restrictions with respect to diversification and industry concentration and other matters. Compliance with the Investment Company Act would, accordingly, limit our ability to make certain investments and require us to significantly restructure our business plan, which could materially and adversely affect our ability to pay distributions to our stockholders.
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We maintain a website at www.tpgrefinance.com. We are providing the address to our website solely for the information of investors. The information on our website is not a part of, nor is it incorporated by reference into, this report. Through our website, we make available, free of charge, our annual proxy statement, annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish them to, the SEC.
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