Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
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Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 at 11:00 a.m., ET, and any adjournments or postponements thereof.

The mailing address of our executive office is 333 Earle Ovington Boulevard, Suite 900, Uniondale, New York, 11553. This proxy statement, the accompanying proxy card and the notice of annual meeting are first being mailed (or emailed solely with respect to the proxy card relating to the special voting preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "special voting preferred stock")) on or about April 17, 2025 to holders of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "common stock") and special voting preferred stock on the record date. The outstanding shares of common stock and special voting preferred stock are the only securities entitled to vote at the annual meeting, and we refer to these securities, collectively, as our voting securities. Along with this proxy statement, we are also sending our Annual Report to Stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2024 (“2024 Annual Report”).

A proxy may confer discretionary authority to vote with respect to any matter presented at the annual meeting. As of the date of this proxy statement, management has no knowledge of any business that will be presented for consideration at the annual meeting and that would be required to be set forth in this proxy statement or the related proxy card other than the matters set forth in the Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders. If any other matter is properly presented at the annual meeting for consideration, it is intended that the persons named in the enclosed proxy card and acting thereunder will vote in accordance with their discretion on any such matter.

Instructions to Attend and Vote at the Virtual Annual Meeting

Record Holders: If you were a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the record date (i.e., you held your shares in your own name as reflected in the records of our transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC ("ETC"), formerly known as American Stock Transfer & Trust Company), you can attend the annual meeting by accessing https://web.lumiconnect.com/286720334 and selecting the button “I have a Control Number.” You will then be directed to a screen where you will enter: (1) the 11-digit control number on the proxy card; and (2) the meeting password “arbor2025”. Please note the meeting password is case sensitive. Once you have completed these steps, select the “login” button, which will take you to the