KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is a real estate financing company seeking to generate risk-adjusted returns. It focuses primarily on originating senior loans secured by commercial real estate assets.

Their investment strategy is to originate senior loans collateralized by institutional-quality commercial real estate assets that are owned and operated by experienced and well-capitalized sponsors and located in liquid markets with strong underlying fundamentals. The New York, New York-based company was founded by Patrick Mattson, Matthew A. Salem, and Christen Lee in 2014.