UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 31, 2018

American Finance Trust, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

At the 2018 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of American Finance Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) held on May 31, 2018, the Company’s stockholders re-elected, by a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting, Stanley R. Perla and Edward G. Rendell to the Company’s Board of Directors as Class I directors to serve until the Company’s 2021 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualify.

The Company’s stockholders also ratified, by a majority of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting, the appointment of KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018.

No other proposals were submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders at the Annual Meeting.

At the Annual Meeting, there were present, in person or by proxy, stockholders holding an aggregate of 54,389,807 shares of the Company’s common stock, out of a total number of 104,945,947 shares of the Company’s common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, representing approximately 51.8% of the shares entitled to be voted. The full results of the matters voted on at the Annual Meeting are set forth below:

Proposal 1 – Election of Class I Directors

Proposal 2 – Ratification of the Appointment of KPMG as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2018:

* No broker non-votes arose in connection with Proposal No. 2.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.