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
Chunk 7
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 for a vote at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof in accordance with Minnesota law and our By-laws.

| 14. | What if I don’t provide specific voting instructions? |

Shareholders of Record. If you are the shareholder of record and you return a signed proxy card but do not indicate how you wish to vote, then your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board on all matters presented in this proxy statement and as the proxy holders may determine in their discretion regarding any other matters properly presented for a vote at the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof. If you provide voting instructions on your proxy card with respect to any matter to be acted upon, the shares will be voted in accordance with your instructions. Beneficial Owners. If you are a beneficial owner and hold your shares in street name and do not provide your Nominee with voting instructions, your Nominee will determine whether it has the discretionary authority to vote on the particular matter. Under applicable rules, brokers, banks and other nominees have the discretion to vote on “routine” matters, such as the ratification of the selection of an independent registered public accounting firm, but do not have discretion to vote on “non-routine” matters, such as (i) the election of directors and (ii) the vote, on a non-binding advisory basis, on the approval of the 2024 compensation of our named executive officers. Accordingly, if you do not instruct your Nominee on how to vote your shares with respect to non-routine matters, your shares will be broker non-votes with respect to those proposals.

| Your vote is especially important. If your shares are held in street name (by your Nominee), your Nominee cannot independently vote your shares for (i) the election of directors or (ii) the advisory vote on the approval of the 2024 compensation of our named executive officers. Therefore, please promptly instruct your Nominee regarding how to vote your shares regarding these matters. |

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| 15. | Is my vote confidential? |

Proxy cards, proxies delivered by the Internet or telephone, ballots and voting tabulations that identify individual shareholders are mailed or returned directly to Broadridge Financial Solutions as the independent inspector of election and handled in a manner that protects your voting privacy. As the independent inspector of election, Broadridge Financial Solutions will count the votes.

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