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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 be held on June 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, or at any postponements or adjournments thereof.

All stockholders are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting virtually. By hosting the Annual Meeting via a live webcast, we believe we are able to communicate more effectively with our stockholders and enable increased attendance and participation from locations around the world. Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual Annual Meeting, in order to assure proper representation of your shares at the Annual Meeting, we urge you to submit your proxy voting instructions. By submitting your proxy voting instructions promptly, you can help ARI avoid the expense of follow up mailings and ensure the presence of a quorum at the Annual Meeting. If you are a stockholder of record or you hold a proxy from a stockholder of record and attend the Annual Meeting, you may, if so desired, revoke your prior proxy voting instructions and vote your shares electronically at the Annual Meeting.

In order to attend and participate in the virtual Annual Meeting, you must register in advance at https://web.viewproxy.com/apollocref/2025 by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on June 6, 2025. Upon registering, you will receive a meeting invitation by email with your unique join link along with a password prior to the meeting date. Stockholders will have substantially the same opportunities to participate in our virtual Annual Meeting as they would have in an in-person meeting and will be able to listen, vote and submit questions during the virtual meeting. Stockholders may also submit questions up to 15 minutes before the start of the Annual Meeting at https://web.viewproxy.com/apollocref/2025. Questions that are pertinent to the purpose of the Annual Meeting will be answered during the meeting, subject to time constraints. We may address substantially similar questions, or questions that relate to the same topic, in a single response. Stockholders will be able to review the meeting materials at the link provided in the registration confirmation e-mail. We encourage you to submit your questions before or during the formal business portion of the meeting, in advance of the question-and-answer session, in order to ensure that there is adequate time to address questions in an orderly manner.

If you are a registered holder of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), you may vote your shares of Common Stock by proxy or electronically at the Annual Meeting, and your Virtual Control Number will be on your Notice of