Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
Chunk: 53

Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 53
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#### Director Compensation
The Compensation Committee’s recommendations regarding compensation of our directors are reported to, and approved by, the full Board of Directors. In 2024, the Compensation Committee engaged FPL Associates, its independent

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compensation consultant, to assist the Compensation Committee in evaluating the Company's practices regarding non-employee director compensation. Following that evaluation, the Compensation Committee determined to make no changes to the amount or structure of non-employee director compensation.

For 2024, the director compensation plan provided that each non-management director is paid a director’s fee with a value of $217,500 per year, consisting of $100,000 of cash and approximately $117,500 in stock. The lead director is paid an additional cash fee of $50,000 per year. The independent director who serves as the chairman of the: (1) Audit Committee is paid an additional cash fee of $25,000 per year; (2) Corporate Governance Committee is paid an additional cash fee of $20,000 per year; and (3) Compensation Committee is paid an additional cash fee of $15,000 per year. Additionally, each independent director who serves on a committee (other than the chairman) is paid an additional cash fee per year of $10,000. In addition, we reimburse all directors for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with their services on the Board of Directors. We also reimburse all directors up to $2,500 per year for continuing education costs incurred in connection with their services on the Board of Directors.

If the value of a director’s equity ownership in Arbor, measured as of December 31 of the prior calendar year, equals or exceeds five times the cash compensation (including all committee fees) received in the prior calendar year, the director may elect to have all, or a portion of, the equity compensation to be granted the following March paid in cash in lieu of stock.

The director compensation program also requires a minimum level of equity ownership for each director. The required minimum level of equity ownership for each director is five times the level of total cash compensation received by such director in the prior calendar year. New directors have five years to reach the required level of equity ownership. If any director should fall below the required level of equity ownership, such director will have one year to