Filed
Pursuant to Rule 433
Registration
No. 333-148142
June 1, 2009
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2500 City West Boulevard
Suite 2200
Houston, TX 77042
(713) 361-2600
(713) 361-2693 fax
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Contact:
G. Kregg Lunsford
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June 1, 2009
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Chief Financial Officer
(713) 243-2713
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Helix
to Commence Secondary Public Offering of Cal Dive Common
Stock
HOUSTON, TX (June 1, 2009) Cal Dive
International, Inc. (NYSE:DVR) announced today that Helix Energy
Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE:HLX) (Helix), its
majority stockholder, intends to commence an underwritten
secondary public offering of 20.0 million shares of
Cal Dive common stock. Cal Dive also announced it has
entered into an agreement with Helix under which, simultaneously
with and conditioned upon closing of the offering, it will
repurchase directly from Helix an additional $14 million in
shares at a per share purchase price that is equal to the price
at which Helix sells the shares under the offering.
Cal Dive intends to retire all of the shares repurchased.
The secondary offering also includes an option for the
underwriters to purchase an additional 3.0 million shares
to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering, including the
over-allotment option and stock repurchase (at an assumed price
of $10.09 per share, which was the closing sale price of
Cal Dive common stock on Friday, May 29) represents
approximately 26% of Cal Dives common stock currently
outstanding and if completed would reduce Helixs ownership
interest in the Company from approximately 51% to 25%. Helix
will receive all net proceeds from the secondary offering and
stock repurchase.
In connection with the offering, Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC and Merrill Lynch & Co. are acting as joint
book-running managers and Raymond James & Associates
and Johnson Rice & Company L.L.C. are acting as
co-managers for the offering.
Cal Dive has filed a registration statement, including a
prospectus, with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the
offering to which this communication relates. Before investing,
investors should read the prospectus in that registration
statement, the accompanying prospectus supplement, and other
documents Cal Dive has filed with the SEC for more complete
information about Cal Dive and this offering.
Investors may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR
on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer,
any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will
arrange to send the prospectus and the prospectus supplement
upon request by contacting Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC at
Prospectus Dept., One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010,
1-800-221-1037
or Merrill Lynch & Co. at 4 World Financial Center,
New York, NY 10080, attn: Prospectus Department.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of
these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration
or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.
Cal Dive International, Inc., headquartered in Houston,
Texas, is a marine contractor that provides an integrated
offshore construction solution to its customers, including
manned diving, pipelay and pipe burial, platform installation
and platform salvage services to the offshore oil and natural
gas industry on the Gulf of Mexico OCS, Northeastern U.S., Latin
America, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, India and
the
Mediterranean, with a fleet of 31 vessels, including 21
surface and saturation diving support vessels and 10
construction barges.
This press release may include forward-looking
statements that are generally identifiable through our use of
words such as believe, expect,
anticipate, intend, plan,
estimate, project and similar
expressions and include any statements that we make regarding
our earnings expectations. The forward-looking statements speak
only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no
obligation to update or revise such statements to reflect new
information or events as they occur. Our actual future results
may differ materially due to a variety of factors, including
current economic and financial market conditions, changes in
commodity prices for natural gas and oil and in the level of
offshore exploration, development and production activity in the
oil and natural gas industry, our inability to obtain contracts
with favorable pricing terms if there is a downturn in our
business cycle, intense competition in our industry, the
operational risks inherent in our business, risks associated
with our relationship with Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.,
and other risks detailed in the prospectus supplement relating
to the offering and our Annual Report on
Form 10-K.