HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tidewater Inc. (NYSE: TDW) (“Tidewater”) today announced the successful completion of its business combination with GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (“GulfMark”).
Tidewater and GulfMark stockholders overwhelmingly supported the business combination, with relevant proposals being approved by over 99% of the votes cast by Tidewater stockholders and GulfMark stockholders, respectively, in person or represented by proxy, not including abstentions, at the companies’ respective stockholder meetings earlier today. All necessary conditions to the closing have been satisfied and the business combination has been consummated. In connection with the completion of the transaction, GulfMark common stock will cease trading on the New York Stock Exchange as of the market close on November 15, 2018.
Tidewater’s President and Chief Executive Officer, John Rynd, commented, “We’re excited to welcome the GulfMark team to Tidewater, and we look forward to commencing the work of integrating our fleets and shore-base operations in order to quickly and fully realize the strategic and financial benefits of this business combination. A combined Tidewater and GulfMark will provide employees with more opportunities as part of a global leader with a deep commitment to safety and reliability, offer customers a broad range of highest quality, cost-effective support vessel services worldwide, and deliver to stockholders competitive returns on invested capital and scope for significant growth in revenue and free cash flow in an improving offshore market.”
About Tidewater
Tidewater owns and operates the largest
fleet of Offshore Support Vessels in the industry, with over 60 years of
experience supporting offshore energy exploration and production
activities worldwide.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
In accordance with the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, Tidewater notes that certain statements set forth in this
presentation provide other than historical information and are forward
looking. The unfolding of future economic or business developments may
happen in a way not as anticipated or projected by Tidewater and may
involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause Tidewater’s
actual achievement of any forecasted results to be materially different
from that stated or implied in the forward-looking statement. Among
those risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of
Tidewater include, without limitation the anticipated synergies with
respect to the combination of Tidewater and GulfMark; fluctuations in
worldwide energy demand and oil and gas prices; fleet additions by
competitors and industry overcapacity; customer actions including
changes in capital spending for offshore exploration, development and
production and changes in demands for different vessel specifications;
acts of terrorism and piracy; the impact of potential information
technology, cybersecurity or data security breaches; significant weather
conditions; unsettled political conditions, war, civil unrest and
governmental actions, especially in higher political risk countries
where we operate; labor changes proposed by international conventions;
increased regulatory burdens and oversight; changes in law, economic and
global financial market conditions, including the effect of enactment of
U.S. tax reform or other tax law changes, trade policy and tariffs,
interest and foreign currency exchange rate volatility, commodity and
equity prices and the value of financial assets; and enforcement of laws
related to the environment, labor and foreign corrupt practices. Readers
should consider all of these risk factors, as well as other information
contained in Tidewater’s form 10-Ks and 10-Qs.
