Company: ARI
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-104054
Chunk: 36

Company: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 36
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 options, warrants, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights or similar rights whose value is derived from the value of our Common Stock (other than securities granted under the Equity Incentive Plans or a successor plan) or that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of our securities. - 25 - Personal Loans to Executive Officers and Directors We comply with, and operate in a manner consistent with, applicable law prohibiting extensions of credit in the form of personal loans to or for the benefit of our directors and executive officers. - 26 -

#### Director Attendance at Meetings of Stockholders
As set forth in the Corporate Governance Guidelines, our policy is to encourage and promote the attendance by each director at all meetings of our stockholders.

#### Communications with the Board of Directors
Our board of directors has approved a process to enable communications with the independent members of the board of directors or the Chairperson of any of the committees of the board of directors. Communications by email should be sent to stockholdercommunications@apollocref.com. Communications by regular mail should be sent to the attention of our Secretary at our office at 9 West 57th Street, 42nd Floor, New York, New York 10019. Each communication received will be reviewed to determine whether the communication requires immediate action. All appropriate communications received, or a summary of such communications, will be sent to the appropriate member(s) of our board of directors. However, we reserve the right to disregard any communication we determine is unduly hostile, threatening, illegal, not reasonably related to us or our business, or is similarly inappropriate. Our Secretary, or his or her delegate, has the authority to disregard any inappropriate communications or to take other appropriate actions with respect to any such inappropriate communications. Our board of directors has approved this communication process.

#### Executive Sessions of Independent Directors
The independent directors serving on our board of directors meet in executive sessions at least four times per year at regularly scheduled meetings of our board of directors. These executive sessions of our board of directors are presided over by the Chair or another of the independent directors serving on our board of directors selected on an ad-hoc basis.

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### INFORMATION REGARDING OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Our President and Chief Executive Officer is Stuart A. Rothstein. Our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary is Anastasia Mironova. For Mr. Rothstein’s biography, please see “Election of Directors—Information Regarding