Company: HLX
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001140361-25-039546
Chunk: 32

Company: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 32
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We or the selling shareholders may enter into derivative transactions with third parties, or sell securities not covered by this prospectus to third parties in privately negotiated transactions. If any applicable prospectus supplement indicates, in connection with those derivatives, the third parties may sell securities covered by this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement, including in short sale transactions, then the third parties may use securities pledged by us or the selling shareholders, or borrowed from us, the selling shareholders or others, to settle those sales or to close out any related open borrowings of securities, and may use securities received from us or the selling shareholders in settlement of those derivatives to close out any related open borrowings of securities. The third parties in these sale transactions will be underwriters and will be identified in such applicable prospectus supplement or in a post-effective amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

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In connection with the sale of the securities, underwriters, dealers or agents may be deemed to have received compensation from us or the selling shareholders in the form of underwriting discounts or commissions and also may receive commissions from securities purchasers for whom they may act as agent. Underwriters may sell the securities to or through dealers, and the dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the underwriters or commissions from the purchasers for whom they may act

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as agent. We will provide in a prospectus supplement any required information regarding any underwriting discounts or other compensation that we or the selling shareholders pay to underwriters or agents in connection with the securities offering, and any discounts, concessions or commissions that underwriters allow to dealers.

The selling shareholders and any underwriters, dealers or agents participating in a distribution of the securities may be deemed to be underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act, and any discounts and commissions received by them and any profit realized by them on resale of the securities may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. We or the selling shareholders may agree to indemnify underwriters, dealers and agents who participate in the distribution of securities against certain liabilities to which they may become subject in connection with the sale of the securities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act, or to contribute with respect to payments that the agents, dealers or underwriters may be required to make because of those liabilities. Agents, dealers and underwriters, or their affiliates or associates, may be customers of, engage in transactions with or perform services