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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 the instructions provided by your broker or other financial institution regarding how to instruct your broker or financial institution to vote your shares of Common Stock. If you hold your shares in “street name” through a broker or other financial institution and you wish to vote electronically at the Annual Meeting, you must provide a legal proxy from your broker or other financial institution during registration and you will be assigned a Virtual Control Number in order to vote electronically during the Annual Meeting.If you do not obtain a legal proxy to vote

your shares, you will still be able to attend the Annual Meeting (but will not be able to vote your shares electronically at the meeting) so long as you demonstrate proof of stock ownership when you register to attend the Annual Meeting. Instructions on how to register, connect and participate via the Internet, including how to demonstrate proof of stock ownership, are posted at https://web.viewproxy.com/apollocref/2025. Your proxy is being solicited by our board of directors. Our board of directors recommends that you vote FOR the election of the nominees listed in the accompanying proxy statement to serve on our board of directors until our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify, FOR the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year and FOR the resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers.

| By Order of the Board,                           |
| /s/ Anastasia Mironova                           |
| Anastasia Mironova                               |
| Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary |

New York, New York April 29, 2025 Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting to be held June 10, 2025. The Proxy Statement and our 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders are available at: https://web.viewproxy.com/apollocref/2025.

<div align='center'>**PROXY STATEMENT

FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

TO BE HELD ON JUNE 10, 2025**</div>

This Proxy Statement is being furnished to stockholders in connection with the solicitation of proxies by and on behalf of the board of directors of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“ARI,” our “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”), for use at ARI’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) to