Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
Chunk: 6

Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any postponements or adjournments thereof.

The presence, in person or by proxy, at the virtual Annual Meeting of holders of Common Stock entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting shall constitute a quorum. Abstentions

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and broker non-votes are each included in the determination of the number of stockholders present at the Annual Meeting for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present. A broker non-vote occurs when a nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner (e.g., a broker) submits a properly executed proxy but does not vote on a particular proposal because such nominee does not have discretionary authority to vote the shares and has not received instructions from the beneficial owner. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”), the only item to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting with respect to which a broker or nominee will be permitted to exercise voting discretion is the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year. Therefore, if you hold your shares in street name and do not give the broker or nominee specific voting instructions on the election of directors, or the resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers, your shares will not be voted on those items, and a broker non-vote will occur. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the voting results for such items. Abstentions will have no effect on the voting results for any of the proposals.

The disposition of business scheduled to come before the Annual Meeting, assuming a quorum is present, will require the following affirmative votes: (i) for the election of a director, a plurality of all the votes cast in the election of directors at the Annual Meeting; (ii) for the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, a majority of all the votes cast on the proposal; and (iii) for the resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers, a majority of all the votes cast on the proposal.

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. The N