Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. Closes $250 Million Loan for Redevelopment of NYC Office Building

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the "Company” or "ARI”) (NYSE:ARI) today announced the Company provided $250 million of first mortgage and mezzanine financing ($122.7 million of which was funded at closing) for the redevelopment of an existing office building in the Hudson Yards/Penn Station submarket of New York City. The loans are part of a $479.0 million construction financing, which includes financing provided by other investment funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC (together with its subsidiaries, "Apollo”).

The construction loan will fund the repositioning and redevelopment of an existing office building into a 24-story, approximately 700,000 square foot Class-A office building and will repay an existing $220 million predevelopment loan provided to the property in 2016, $105 million of which was provided by ARI.

Commenting on the transaction, Scott Weiner, Chief Investment Officer of the Company’s manager, said: "This transaction is one of ARI’s largest loans to date and demonstrates the breadth of the broader Apollo commercial real estate debt platform. We believe ARI’s ability to co-originate this loan with the other Apollo managed funds enabled us to win the mandate on this transaction, while offering the borrower a seamless execution in dealing with one lending source.”

About Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NYSE: ARI) is a real estate investment trust that primarily originates, acquires, invests in and manages performing commercial real estate mortgage loans, subordinate financings, CMBS and other commercial real estate-related debt investments. The Company is externally managed and advised by ACREFI Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, LLC, a leading global alternative investment manager with approximately $241.6 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2017.

Additional information can be found on the Company's website at www.apolloreit.com

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