---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-027117"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABR"
cik: "0001253986"
company_name: "ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T22:13:47.546525+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arbor Realty Trust annual meeting: elects four directors, approves auditor and say-on-pay

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Caryn Effron, Joseph Martello, Edward Farrell, and George Tsunis as Class I directors for terms until 2028.
- Votes for each director: Effron 69.9M, Martello 76.8M, Farrell 72.1M, Tsunis 79.7M; broker non-votes 61.1M each.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025 approved: 138.6M for, 4.4M against, 0.9M abstain.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed: 62.9M for, 18.4M against, 1.6M abstain, with 61.1M broker non-votes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-027117
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABR
- cik: 0001253986
- company_name: ARBOR REALTY TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253986/000162828025027117/0001628280-25-027117-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253986/000162828025027117/abr-20250521.htm

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