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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 dated proxy or (iii) voting electronically at the Annual Meeting. Attending (virtually) the Annual Meeting will not automatically revoke a stockholder’s previously submitted proxy unless such stockholder votes (electronically) at the Annual Meeting. If a proxy is properly authorized without specifying any voting instructions and not revoked prior to the Annual Meeting, the shares of Common Stock represented by such proxy will be voted FOR the election of the nominees named in this Proxy Statement as directors, to serve on our board of directors until our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualify, FOR the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year and FOR the resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this Proxy Statement. As to any other business which may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any postponements or adjournments thereof, the persons named as proxy holders on your proxy card will vote the shares of Common Stock represented by properly submitted proxies in their discretion, or, if any of the nominees named in this Proxy Statement are unable or unwilling to serve, FOR the election of any other nominees designated by our board of directors.

This Proxy Statement, the Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and the related proxy card are first being made available or sent to stockholders on or about April 29, 2025.

### ANNUAL REPORT
This Proxy Statement is accompanied by our Annual Report to Stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2024, including financial statements audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, and their report thereon, dated February 10, 2025.

### VOTING SECURITIES AND RECORD DATE
Stockholders will be entitled to cast one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record at the close of business on April 15, 2025 (the “Record Date”) with respect to (i) the election of nine directors to serve on our board of directors until our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualify, (ii) the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year, (iii) the resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers and (iv) any other proposal for stockholder action that