Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
Chunk: 61

Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 61
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 director or executive officer of ours or a nominee to become a director of ours; (2) any person who is the beneficial owner of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities; and (3) any immediate family member of any of the foregoing persons, which means any child, step-child, parent, step-parent, spouse, sibling, mother in-law, father in-law, son in-law, daughter in-law, brother in-law or sister in-law, and any person (other than a tenant or employee) sharing the household of any such director, executive officer or 5% beneficial owner.

In reviewing any Related Person transaction, all of the relevant facts and circumstances must be considered, including (1) the Related Person’s relationship to us and his or her interest in the transaction, (2) the proposed aggregate value of the transaction, or, in the case of indebtedness, the amount of principal that would be involved, (3) the benefits to us, (4) the availability of comparable products or services that would avoid the need for a Related Person transaction, and (5) the terms of the transaction and the terms available to unrelated third parties or to employees generally.

#### Relationships with ACM
ACM’s Ownership Interest in the Company and Related Registration Rights

ACM currently owns 10,483,930 OP Units in our operating partnership, Arbor Realty Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”), representing approximately 5.0% of the partnership interests in our operating partnership. Each of the OP Units currently held by ACM are paired with one share of our special voting preferred stock, each of which entitles the holder to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders. Combined with its direct ownership of 2,535,870 shares of our common stock, ACM is currently entitled to a number of votes representing approximately 6.2% of the voting power of our outstanding voting securities. We have granted ACM shelf registration rights, or, if such rights are not available, demand registration rights with respect to the shares currently owned by it. ACM is also entitled to participate in primary or secondary offerings of our common stock with respect to these shares. We have also agreed to certain restrictions on the registration rights that we may grant to any other holder or prospective holder of our securities without the prior written consent of ACM so long as we are still obligated to register any of the shares currently owned by ACM pursuant to the registration rights agreement.

Mr. Ivan Kaufman, our Chairman, CEO and President, and