Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the "Company") was held on June 2, 2020, at which 140,391,878 shares of the Company's common stock were represented in person or by proxy representing approximately 91.3% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company's common stock entitled to vote.

At the Annual Meeting, the Company's stockholders: (i) elected the eight directors named below for a term expiring in 2021; (ii) ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020; and (iii) approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers. The proposals are described in detail in the Company's 2019 Proxy Statement. The final results for the votes regarding each proposal are set forth below.



(i)  The voting results with respect to the election of each director were as
follows:

Name                    Votes For        Votes Withheld       Broker Non-Votes
Mark C. Biderman        107,499,469            1,333,790             31,558,619
Brenna Haysom           107,964,921              868,338             31,558,619
Robert A. Kasdin         90,177,393           18,655,866             31,558,619
Katherine G. Newman     101,741,459            7,091,800             31,558,619
Eric L. Press            97,555,507           11,277,752             31,558,619
Scott S. Prince          90,128,114           18,705,145             31,558,619
Stuart A. Rothstein     106,531,301            2,301,958             31,558,619
Michael E. Salvati       84,731,561           24,101,698             31,558,619

(ii) The voting results with respect to the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 were as follows:

Votes For Votes Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 137,846,819 1,872,245 672,814

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(iii) The voting results with respect to the approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company's named executive officers were as follows:

Votes For Votes Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 104,516,233 3,512,653 804,361

             31,558,631

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