Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
Chunk: 59

Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 59
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 or proposal of other business, in writing, by 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 30, 2025, but in no event earlier than November 30, 2025.

In addition to satisfying the notice requirements under our Bylaws, any stockholder who intends to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than our nominees must comply with the additional requirements of Rule 14a-19(b) under the Exchange Act, including providing certain statements.

Any such nomination or proposal should be sent to our Secretary at Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., 9 West 57th Street, 42nd Floor, New York, New York 10019 and must include the information and other materials required by our Bylaws.

<div align='center'>**DELIVERY OF MATERIALS**</div>

In accordance with rules adopted by the SEC, instead of mailing a printed copy of our proxy materials to our stockholders, we are, except as described below, furnishing proxy materials, including this Proxy Statement and our 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders, by providing access to these documents on the Internet. Accordingly, on or about April 29, 2025, a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) will be sent to our beneficial owners of Common Stock. The Notice provides instructions for accessing our proxy materials on the Internet and instructions for receiving printed copies of the proxy materials without charge by mail or electronically by email. Please follow the instructions included in the Notice.

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The Notice provides you with instructions regarding the following: (1) viewing our proxy materials for the Annual Meeting on the Internet; (2) voting your shares after you have viewed our proxy materials; (3) requesting a printed copy of the proxy materials; and (4) instructing us to send our future proxy materials to you. We believe the delivery options allow us to provide our stockholders with the proxy materials they need, while lowering the cost of the delivery of the materials and reducing the environmental impact of printing and mailing. If you choose to receive future proxy materials by email, you will receive an email next year with instructions containing a link to view those proxy materials and a link to the proxy voting site. Your election to receive proxy materials by email will remain in effect until you terminate it.

In addition, certain stockholders of record of our Common Stock will be sent, by mail, this Proxy Statement, the Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and the related