Company: HLX
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-011655
Chunk: 6

Company: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 received but marked as abstentions or withholding authority and broker non-votes will be included in the calculation of the number of shares considered to be present at the meeting for quorum purposes.

| 11. | What are broker non-votes and abstentions? |

If you are the beneficial owner of shares held in street name, then your Nominee, as shareholder of record, is required to vote those shares in accordance with your instructions. However, if you do not give instructions to your Nominee, then it will have discretion to vote the shares with respect to “routine” matters, such as the ratification of the selection of an independent

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registered public accounting firm, but will not be permitted to vote with respect to “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. An abstention is a decision by a shareholder to take a neutral position on a proposal being submitted to shareholders at a meeting. Taking a neutral position through an abstention is considered a vote cast on a proposal being submitted at a meeting, as described in the response to Question 4 above.

| 12. | How many shares can vote? |

On the record date, there were 151,530,339 shares of Helix common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, held by approximately 78,780 beneficial owners. These shares are the only securities entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. Each holder of a share of common stock is entitled to one vote on each of the matters presented at the Annual Meeting for each share held on the record date.

| 13. | What happens if additional matters are presented at the Annual Meeting? |

Other than the three matters noted in response to Question 2 above, we are not aware of any other business to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting. If you grant a proxy (other than the proxy held by the shareholder of record if you are the beneficial owner and hold your shares in street name) the persons named as proxy holders will have the discretion to vote your shares on any additional matters properly presented