Company: TDDWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038699
Chunk: 80

Company: TIDEWATER INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 80
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, will be available at investor.tdw.com within 24 hours of the meeting. Q: Who is soliciting my proxy? A: Our Board, on behalf of the company, is soliciting your proxy to vote your shares on all matters that you are entitled to vote at our 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. By completing and returning the proxy card or voting instruction form, or by casting your vote by phone or online, you are authorizing the proxy holder designated by the Board to vote your shares of common stock at our Annual Meeting in accordance with your instructions. 77 TABLE OF CONTENTS We also have hired Alliance Advisors, LLC (“Alliance Advisors”), a proxy solicitation firm, to assist us in soliciting proxies. The company will be responsible for the full cost of Alliance Advisors’ services. Alliance Advisors will solicit proxies on behalf of the company from individuals, brokers, bank nominees and other institutional holders in the same manner described above. The fees that will be paid to Alliance Advisors are anticipated to be approximately $10,000. The company has also agreed to indemnify Alliance Advisors against certain claims. Q: How many votes may I cast? A: With respect to any matter properly presented for a shareholder vote, other than the election of directors, you may cast one vote for every share of our common stock that you owned on the Record Date. With respect to the election of directors, for every share of common stock that you held on the Record Date, you may cast one vote for each director nominee. Q: What is the total number of votes that can be cast by all shareholders? A: On the Record Date, we had 50,853,374 shares of common stock outstanding, each of which was entitled to one vote per share. Q: I hold warrants to purchase shares of common stock. Am I allowed to vote my warrants? A: No. A holder of warrants to purchase shares of our common stock does not have any rights as a shareholder, including voting rights, unless and until those warrants are exercised and exchanged for shares of our common stock. Q: How many shares must be present to hold the meeting? A: Except as otherwise provided by our By-laws, at each meeting of stockholders, the presence in person or represented by proxy of the holders of a majority of the voting power of all outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote at the meeting of stockholders, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at such meeting. On the Record Date, 25,426,688