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 8, 2021, at which 111,543,528 shares of the Company's common stock were represented in person or by proxy representing approximately 79.7% 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 nine directors named below for a term expiring in 2022; (ii) ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021; 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 2020 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            87,674,973              949,770             22,918,785
Brenna Haysom               87,811,031              813,712             22,918,785
Robert A. Kasdin            75,537,783           13,086,960             22,918,785
Katherine G. Newman         82,334,182            6,290,561             22,918,785
Eric L. Press               82,342,031            6,282,712             22,918,785
Scott S. Prince             75,482,054           13,142,689             22,918,785
Stuart A. Rothstein         86,564,974            2,059,769             22,918,785
Michael E. Salvati          71,437,598           17,187,145             22,918,785
Carmencita N.M. Whonder     80,250,457            8,374,286             22,918,785

(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, 2021 were as follows:





  Votes For   Votes Against   Abstain   Broker Non-Votes
110,733,536         533,602   276,390                  -

(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
84,396,666       3,596,641   631,437         22,918,784

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