8-K
filed June 1, 2026, 4:09 PM ET
ticker ACRE
CIK 0001529377
other
confidence high
sentiment neutral
materiality 0.10
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation reports 2026 Annual Meeting voting results
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp
- Stockholders elected William S. Benjamin and Caroline E. Blakely as Class II directors with over 15.7 million votes for each.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for fiscal year 2026 passed with over 36.6 million votes for.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with over 19.8 million votes for and 283,582 abstentions.
Key facts
Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.
Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp shareholders approved Non-binding, advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company's named executive officers at the 2026-05-27 meeting.
- Proposal
- say on pay
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2026-05-27
Exact text from the filing
(3) A proposal for the non-binding, advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. VOTES FOR VOTES AGAINST VOTES ABSTAINED BROKER NON-VOTES 19,848,823 2,518,989 283,582 17,249,325
View on SEC.gov
Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp shareholders approved Election of two Class II directors to serve until the Company's 2029 annual meeting of stockholders at the 2026-05-27 meeting.
- Proposal
- director election
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2026-05-27
Exact text from the filing
(1) A proposal to elect two Class II directors to serve until the Company’s 2029 annual meeting of stockholders, and until their successors have been duly elected and qualify. VOTES FOR VOTES WITHHELD BROKER NON-VOTES William S. Benjamin 15,754,104 6,897,290 17,249,325 Caroline E. Blakely 15,832,783 6,818,611 17,249,325
View on SEC.gov
Shareholder Votes
SEC 8-K Item 5.07
confidence 0.9
Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 at the 2026-05-27 meeting.
- Proposal
- auditor ratification
- Outcome
- passed
- Meeting
- 2026-05-27
Exact text from the filing
(2) A proposal to ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. VOTES FOR VOTES AGAINST VOTES ABSTAINED 36,662,962 328,926 2,908,831
View on SEC.gov
This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice.
See methodology for how this pipeline works.