The information in this Item 2.02 and the disclosure incorporated by reference in Item 2.02 with respect to Exhibit 99.1 attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K are being furnished by Ellington Financial LLC (the "Company") to Item 2.02 of Form 8-K in satisfaction of the public disclosure requirements of Regulation FD and Item 2.02 of Form 8-K, insofar as they disclose historical information regarding the Company’s results of operations or financial condition for the quarter ended December 31, 2017.

On February 13, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2017. A copy of the press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

In accordance with General Instructions B.2 and B.6 of Form 8-K, the information included in Item 2.02 and the disclosure incorporated by reference in Item 2.02 shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing made by the Company under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

The disclosure contained in Item 2.02 is incorporated herein by reference.

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About ELLINGTON FINANCIAL LLC (NYSE:EFC)

Ellington Financial LLC is a specialty finance Company that acquires and manages mortgage-related and other financial assets. The Company is focused on assets, including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) backed by prime jumbo, Alternative A-paper (Alt-A) manufactured housing and subprime residential mortgage loans, collectively referred to as non-Agency RMBS; RMBS, for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by the United States government agency or the United States government-sponsored entity (Agency RMBS); residential mortgage loans; mortgage servicing rights (MSRs); mortgage-related derivatives; commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt; collateralized loan obligations (CLOs); consumer loans and asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by consumer and commercial assets, and corporate debt and equity securities and derivatives.