SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Mumford Lisa (Last) (First) (Middle) 53 FOREST AVE (Street) GREENWICH CT 06870 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Ellington Financial Inc. [ EFC ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 09/14/2021
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
OP LTIP Units(1)	(2)	09/14/2021		A		4,066		(2)	(2)	Common Units	4,066	$0(2)	78,521	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. Represents a separate non-voting class of limited liability company interests ("OP LTIP Units") of Ellington Financial Operating Partnership LLC (the "Operating Partnership"), the operating partnership ofEllington Financial Inc. (the "Company").

2. The 4,066 OP LTIP Units remain forfeitable, subject to the reporting person's continued service as a member of the board of directors of the Company, until September 13, 2022. The OP LTIP Units may be converted, upon lapse of the vesting restrictions described above, at the election of the holder, or at any time at the election of the Company, into limited liability company interests of the Operating Partnership designated as common units ("Common Units") on a one-for-one basis. Subject to certain conditions, the Common Units are redeemable by the holder for an equivalent number of shares of common stock of the Company, $0.001 par value per share (the "Common Shares") or for the cash value of such Common Shares, at the Company's election. The OP LTIP Units were issued pursuant to, and are subject to the terms and conditions of,the Company's 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2017 Plan").

Remarks:

	/s/ Jason Frank, as attorney-in-fact for Lisa Mumford	09/15/2021
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY

      The undersigned (the "Reporting Person") hereby constitutes and appoints
Laurence Penn, Daniel Margolis, Jason Frank, Daniel M. LeBey, and Christopher C.
Green, and each of them, as the Reporting Person's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

      (1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID,
including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to
obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the
SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any
rule or regulation of the SEC;

      (2) execute for and on behalf of the Reporting Person, in the Reporting Person's
capacity as an officer and/or director of Ellington Financial LLC (the
"Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

      (3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the Reporting Person
which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form
with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

      (4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of,
or legally required by, the Reporting Person, it being understood that the documents
executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the Reporting Person pursuant to this
Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

      The Reporting Person grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to
be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the Reporting Person might or could do if personally present,
with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
such attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of
Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The Reporting Person acknowledges
that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
Reporting Person, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the Reporting
Person's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.

      This Power of Attorney shall remain in effect until the Reporting Person is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the Reporting Person's holdings
of, and transactions in securities issued by, the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
Reporting Person in a signed writing delivered to the attorney-in-fact.

[Signature Page Follows]





IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Reporting Person has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed on December 13, 2013.

Sign here:  /s/ Lisa Mumford
Print Name: Lisa Mumford