---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-024745"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABR"
cik: "0001253986"
company_name: "ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T09:39:23.834190+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arbor Realty shareholders approve directors, incentive plan, auditor, and say-on-pay at annual meeting

## Summary
- All four director nominees elected: Wilkens 69.9M, Bacon 59.4M, Green 68.9M, Schwartz 56.9M votes for.
- Amendment and restatement of 2020 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan approved (64.3M for, 7.2M against).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2024 approved (136.6M for, 2.2M against).
- Say-on-pay passed but with 22.3M against (31% of votes cast excluding broker non-votes) — notable opposition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-024745
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABR
- cik: 0001253986
- company_name: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253986/000162828024024745/0001628280-24-024745-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253986/000162828024024745/abr-20240522.htm

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