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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In overseeing our corporate policies and our overall performance and direction, our board of directors has adopted the approach of operating in what it believes are the long-term best interests of our Company and our stockholders. In operating under these principles, our board of directors continuously reviews our policies, strategies and activities, including our corporate governance structure and other governance-related matters from time to time, and considers whether any changes are necessary or desirable.

As part of our continuing corporate governance review, our board of directors periodically reviews our corporate governance documents and in connection with that review has considered an amendment to our Bylaws to allow our stockholders (without the concurrence of our board of directors) to implement bylaw amendments. After careful consideration of this matter, including the voting results at each of our 2017-2024 annual meetings of stockholders, our board of directors continues to believe that it remains in the best interests of our stockholders and our Company if authority to amend our Bylaws is vested exclusively in our board of directors as is permitted by Maryland law. Since our initial public offering in 2009, authority to amend our Bylaws has been vested exclusively with our board of directors. This arrangement has served our interests well, our board of directors believes, because under Maryland law, our directors owe legal duties to our Company that require them to act with a reasonable belief that their actions are in the best interests of our Company. On the other hand, under Maryland law, stockholders are not bound by any such legal duty and are permitted to take or to recommend actions that are in their own individual interests as stockholders without taking into account the broader interests of other stockholders or the interests of our Company. Beyond this factor, a significant percentage of our stockholders at any given time could consist of exchange traded or index funds that do not normally exercise independent judgment on matters presented to stockholders. In addition, in our discussions with our stockholders, none of our stockholders expressed any disagreement with or objection to our corporate governance policies, including the current procedures for amending our Bylaws. Our board of directors considers possible revisions to our corporate governance documents and bylaw amendments from time to time, and will adopt such revisions and/or amendments if it concludes that they are in the best interests of our Company.

### Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
Our board of directors has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code of Conduct”) that applies to our directors and executive officers. The Code of Conduct was