Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
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Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 14a-8 under the Exchange Act are given careful consideration by our Corporate Governance Committee and our Board of Directors. If a stockholder intends to present a proposal at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act, in order for such stockholder proposal to be included in our proxy statement for that meeting, the stockholder proposal must be received at our principal executive office, located at 333 Earle Ovington Boulevard, Suite 900, Uniondale, New York 11553, Attention: Corporate Secretary, on or before December 18, 2025.

In order for a stockholder to nominate directors or propose other business at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders outside of Rule 14a-8, such nominations or proposal must contain the information required by our bylaws and be received by us in accordance with our bylaws. Pursuant to our current bylaws, stockholder nominations or proposals must be delivered to the Secretary at our principal executive office no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, December 18, 2025 and no earlier than November 18, 2025; provided, however, in the event that the date of the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders is advanced more than 30 days prior to or delayed more than 30 days after May 21, 2026, to be timely, a proposal by a stockholder must be delivered not earlier than the 150th day prior to the date of such meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the later of (1) the 120th day prior to the date of such meeting, as originally convened, or (2) the tenth day following the date on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made.

### OTHER MATTERS
Our Board of Directors knows of no other matters that have been submitted for consideration at this annual meeting. If any other matters properly come before our stockholders at this annual meeting, the persons named on the enclosed proxy card intend to vote the shares they represent in accordance with their discretion.

| April 17, 2025      |     | By Order of the Board of Directors, 
 John J. Bishar, Jr.                 
 Corporate Secretary                 |
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| Uniondale, New York |     |                                     |

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