Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
Chunk: 4

Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 4
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 Internet Availability of Proxy Materials or your proxy card (if you received a printed copy of the proxy materials).

If you hold shares of Common Stock in “street name” through a broker or other financial institution, you must follow the instructions provided by your broker or other financial institution regarding how to instruct your broker or financial institution to vote your shares of Common Stock. If you hold your shares in “street name” through a broker or other financial institution and you wish to vote electronically at the Annual Meeting, you must provide a legal proxy from your bank or other financial institution during registration and you will be assigned a Virtual Control Number in order to vote electronically during the Annual Meeting. If you do not obtain a legal proxy to vote your shares, you will still be able to attend the Annual Meeting (but will not be able to vote your shares electronically at the meeting) so long as you demonstrate proof of stock ownership when you register to attend the Annual Meeting. Instructions on how to connect and participate via the Internet, including how to register for the Annual Meeting and demonstrate proof of stock ownership, are posted at

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https://web.viewproxy.com/apollocref/2025. If you authorize a proxy or provide voting instructions in advance of the meeting, you do not need to register for or attend the Annual Meeting in order for your vote to be counted.

The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Please check in by 9:45 a.m., Eastern Time, on the day of the Annual Meeting so that any technical difficulties may be addressed before the live webcast begins. Technicians will be ready to assist you with any technical difficulties you may have accessing the Annual Meeting. If you encounter any difficulties accessing the virtual-only Annual Meeting platform, including any difficulties voting or submitting questions, you may call the technical support number that will be included in your registration confirmation email and posted on the virtual Annual Meeting login page.

Shares of Common Stock represented by properly submitted proxies received by us prior to the Annual Meeting will be voted according to the instructions specified on such proxies. Any stockholder of record submitting a proxy retains the power to revoke such proxy at any time prior to its exercise at the Annual Meeting by (i) delivering prior to the Annual Meeting a written notice of revocation to our Secretary at Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., 9 West 57th Street, 42nd Floor, New York, New York 10019, (ii) submitting a later