Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
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Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
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ominating and Corporate Governance Committee of our board of directors (the “Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee”) is required to promptly consider the resignation and make a recommendation to our board of directors with respect to the tendered resignation. Our board of directors is required to take action with respect to this recommendation. Any director who tenders his or her resignation to our board of directors will not participate in the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee’s consideration or the actions of our board of directors regarding whether to accept such tendered resignation. The majority vote policy is included in our Corporate Governance Guidelines and is more fully described below under “Corporate Governance—Corporate Governance Guidelines—Majority Vote Policy.”

The board of directors knows of no other matters that may properly be brought before the Annual Meeting. If other matters are properly introduced, the persons named in the proxy as the proxy holders will vote on such matters in their discretion.

As of the Record Date, we had 138,942,322 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding.

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#### 1. ELECTION OF DIRECTORSBoard of DirectorsOur board of directors is currently comprised of nine directors: Mark C. Biderman, Pamela G. Carlton, Brenna Haysom, Robert A. Kasdin, Katherine G. Newman, Scott S. Prince, Stuart A. Rothstein, Michael E. Salvati and Carmencita N.M. Whonder. In accordance with our charter (the “Charter”) and bylaws (the “Bylaws”), each director will hold office until our next annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualifies, or until the director’s earlier resignation, death or removal.Upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, our board of directors has nominated Mark C. Biderman, Pamela G. Carlton, Brenna Haysom, Robert A. Kasdin, Katherine G. Newman, Scott S. Prince, Stuart A. Rothstein, Michael E. Salvati and Carmencita N.M. Whonder to stand for election as directors by the stockholders at the Annual Meeting, to serve until our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify, or until their earlier resignation, death or removal. It is intended that the shares of Common Stock represented by properly submitted proxies will be voted by the persons named therein as proxy holdersFORthe election of Messrs. Biderman, Kasdin,