Company: HLX
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-011655
Chunk: 2

Company: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-02
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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 | What proposals will be voted on at the Annual Meeting? |

Three matters are currently scheduled to be voted on at the Annual Meeting:

| • | Firstis the election of two Class I directors to the Board, to serve a three-year term expiring at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2028 or, if at a later date, until their successors are duly elected and qualified. |

| • | Thirdis the advisory vote on the approval of the 2024 compensation of our named executive officers. |

Although we do not expect any other items of business, we also will consider other business that properly comes before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof in accordance with Minnesota law and our By-laws. The moderator of the Annual Meeting may refuse to allow the presentation of a proposal or a nomination for the Board from the floor of the Annual Meeting if the proposal or nomination was not properly submitted.

| 3. | Who may vote at the Annual Meeting? |

The Board has set March 18, 2025 as the record date for the Annual Meeting. Owners of Helix common stock whose shares are recorded directly in their name in our stock register (“shareholders of record”) at the close of business on March 18, 2025 may vote their shares on the matters to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting. Shareholders who, as of March 18, 2025, hold shares of our common stock in “street name,” that is, through an account with a broker, bank or other nominee, may direct the shareholder of record how to vote their shares at the Annual Meeting by following the instructions they will receive from the shareholder of record for this purpose. You are entitled to one vote for each share of common stock you held on the record date on each of the matters presented at the Annual Meeting.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS General Information

| 4. | How does the Board recommend that I vote, and what are the voting standards? |

| Voting Item |     |                             |     | Voting         
 Recommendation |     | Voting Standard to                                                                                                
 Approve Proposal                                                                                                  
 (assuming a quorum                                                                                                
 is present)                                                                                                       |     | Treatment of:                                                                               |     |                                                                                                                 |
| Abstentions |     | Broker Non-Votes            |     |                |     |                                                                                                                   |     |                                                                                             |     |                                                                                                                 |
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