Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
Chunk: 15

Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 15
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Our board of directors recommends a vote FOR the election of Messrs. Biderman, Kasdin, Prince, Rothstein and Salvati and Mses. Carlton, Haysom, Newman and Whonder as directors. A plurality of all of the votes cast in the election of directors at the Annual Meeting is necessary to elect a director. Proxies solicited by our board of directors will be voted FOR Messrs. Biderman, Kasdin, Prince, Rothstein and Salvati and Mses. Carlton, Haysom, Newman and Whonder unless otherwise instructed. Abstentions, if any, and broker non-voteswill not be counted as votes cast and will have no effect on the result of the vote, although they will be considered present for the purpose of determining the presence of a quorum. We have a majority vote policy for the election of directors. In an uncontested election, any nominee for director who receives a greater number of votes “withheld” from his or her election than votes “for” such election is required to promptly tender his or her resignation to our board of directors. Our 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 actions of our board of directors regarding whether to accept such tendered resignation. The policy is included in our Corporate Governance Guidelines and is more fully described below under “Corporate Governance—Corporate Governance Guidelines—Majority Vote Policy.” In accordance with our Charter and Bylaws, any vacancies occurring on our board of directors, including vacancies occurring as a result of the death, resignation, or removal of a director, or due to