Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 115

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 115
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     |     4,000,017 |
| Bryan Wulfsohn                                                                                    |     |   160,833 |     |     1,725,017 |
| Michael C. Roper                                                                                  |     |    55,943 |     |       600,017 |
| Lori R. Samuels                                                                                   |     |    37,296 |     |       400,019 |
| Harold E. Schwartz                                                                                |     |    62,935 |     |       675,010 |
| All current executive officers as a group (8 persons)                                             |     |   731,912 |     |     7,850,133 |
| All current directors who are not executive officers as a group (6 persons)                       |     |    80,392 |     |       865,018 |
| All employees, including current officers who are not executive officers, as a group (46 persons) |     | 1,255,486 |     |    13,465,728 |

| 1. | Represents TRSUs, PRSUs (assuming target performance) and stock awards granted to employees and fully vested RSUs granted to our Non-Employee Directors. |

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 89 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

TABLE OF CONTENTS Certain Relationships and Related Transactions Since the beginning of our last fiscal year, we have not been a party to any transaction or proposed transaction with any related person who is (i) one of our directors or executive officers, (ii) a director nominee, (iii) a beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Common Stock or (iv) any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons that involves an amount exceeding $120,000 and in which any such related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 90 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management The following table sets forth information known to us as of the Record Date, regarding the beneficial ownership of our Common Stock by (i) each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of 5% or more of the Common Stock, (ii) the Named Executive Officers, (iii) our directors and (iv) all of our directors and executive officers as a group

| Name and Business Address(1)                                 |     |                 Common Stock 
 Beneficially Owned Shares(2