Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
Chunk: 7

Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 your shares will be counted for the purpose of determining whether there is a quorum. If a quorum is not present, the annual meeting may be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting or the stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting, present in the meeting or by proxy, to a date no more than 120 days after the record date without notice other than announcement at the annual meeting.

Abstentions and broker non-votes will be counted in determining the presence of a quorum. “Broker non-votes” occur when a bank, broker or other nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner returns a properly executed proxy but does not vote on a particular proposal because the bank, broker or other nominee does not have discretionary voting power for that particular item and has not received instructions from the beneficial owner. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), banks, brokers and other nominees who hold shares in “street name” may have the authority to vote on certain matters when they do not receive instructions from beneficial owners. Banks, brokers and other nominees that do not receive instructions are not entitled to vote on (1) the election of directors contained in Proposal No. 1; and (2) the advisory vote on executive compensation contained in Proposal No. 3, but may vote on the ratification of the appointment of the independent registered public accounting firm contained in Proposal No. 2.

Election of each of the director nominees named in Proposal No. 1 requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast in the election of directors at the annual meeting by holders of our voting securities, except in the case of a contested election, which would require the affirmative vote of a plurality of all the votes cast. In such latter case, the director nominees receiving the highest number of affirmative votes will be elected directors. Shares represented by properly executed and returned proxies will be voted, unless such holder of our voting securities abstained from voting, for the election of the Board of Directors’ nominees named in Proposal No. 1. Votes may be cast in favor of or against each of the director nominees. Abstentions and broker non-votes, if any, will not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the outcome of the vote on the election of directors. Stockholders may not cumulate votes in the election of directors.

Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025, as specified in Proposal No. 2, requires the affirmative