Company: ABR-PF
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018236
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Company: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 tabulating agent, will have a representative present at the annual meeting and will tabulate the votes and act as the Inspector of Election. We will publish the voting results in a Current Report on Form 8-K, which will be filed within four business days of our annual meeting of stockholders.

#### Confidentiality of Voting
We will keep all proxies, ballots and voting tabulations confidential. We will permit only our Inspector of Election, ETC, and our outside legal counsel to examine these documents, except: (1) as necessary to meet applicable legal requirements; (2) if a stockholder writes comments on the proxy card directed to our Board of Directors or management; or (3) in the event a proxy solicitation in opposition to the election of the nominees is initiated.

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#### Recommendations of the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors recommends a vote:

(1) FOR the election of each of Ms. Caryn Effron, Mr. Joseph Martello, Mr. Edward Farrell and Mr. George Tsunis as Class I directors, each to serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified;

(2) FOR the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young as our independent registered public accounting firm for 2025;

(3) FOR the adoption of a non-binding advisory resolution to approve the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement; and

(4) In the discretion of the proxy holder on any other business that properly comes before the annual meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

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### BOARD OF DIRECTORS

#### General
Our Board of Directors presently consists of ten members. Pursuant to our charter, the Board of Directors is divided into three classes of directors, with each director serving for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, with one class up for election at each annual meeting. At this year’s annual meeting, the term of our Class I directors will expire. Our other directors will remain in office for the remainder of their respective terms, as indicated below.

At the annual meeting, stockholders will vote on the elections of Ms. Effron, Mr. Martello, Mr. Farrell and Mr. Tsunis each for a three-year term to serve until