Company: HLX
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-011655
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Company: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 access to those documents on the Internet instead of mailing paper copies. The Notice, which is being mailed to most of our shareholders, describes how to access and review all of the proxy materials on the Internet. The Notice also describes how to vote via the Internet. If you would like to receive a paper copy by mail or an electronic copy by e-mail of the proxy materials, you should follow the instructions in the Notice. Accessing your proxy materials on the Internet and receiving future proxy materials by e-mail saves us the cost of printing and mailing documents to you and reduces the impact on the environment.

| 6. | Can I vote my shares by filling out and returning the Notice of Availability of Proxy Materials? |

No. The Notice identifies the matters to be voted on at the Annual Meeting, but you cannot vote by marking the Notice and returning it.

| 7. | How do I vote my shares? |

If you are a shareholder of record, you may either vote your shares in person at the Annual Meeting or designate another person to vote your shares. That other person is called a “proxy,” and you may vote your shares through your proxy using one of the following methods of voting:

| • | bytelephone, |

| • | electronically using theInternet, or |

| • | if this proxy statement was mailed to you, by marking, signing and dating the enclosed proxy card and returning it in the enclosed postage-paidenvelope. |

| 6 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |     | Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. |

TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information

The instructions for these three methods of voting your shares are set forth on the Notice and also on the proxy card. If you return your signed proxy card but do not mark the boxes showing how you wish to vote, your shares will be voted as recommended by the Board. The giving of a proxy does not affect your right to vote during the Annual Meeting (until the polls are closed).

| 8. | Am I a shareholder of record? |

Shareholder of Record. If your shares are registered directly in your name with our transfer agent, EQ Shareowner Services, you are considered a “shareholder of record” with respect to those shares and the Notice is being sent directly to you by EQ Shareowner Services. As a shareholder of record, you may vote at the Annual Meeting or vote by proxy. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we urge you to vote by telephone, via the Internet, or by marking, signing