<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001564590-16-030401.txt : 20161221
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001564590-16-030401
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20161215
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20161221
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20161221

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			TIDEWATER INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000098222
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WATER TRANSPORTATION [4400]
		IRS NUMBER:				720487776
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0331

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-06311
		FILM NUMBER:		162064318

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		601 POYDRAS ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1500
		CITY:			NEW ORLEANS
		STATE:			LA
		ZIP:			70130
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5045681010

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		601 POYDRAS ST.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1500
		CITY:			NEW ORLEANS
		STATE:			LA
		ZIP:			70130

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	TIDEWATER MARINE SERVICE INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19780724
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:11pt;">On December 15, 2016 (the &#8220;Effective Date&#8221;), Tidewater Inc. (&#8220;Tidewater&#8221; and, together with its subsidiaries, the &#8220;Company&#8221;) implemented an incentive bonus program designed to motivate and retain officers and certain key personnel through the current industry down cycle and to support important restructuring initiatives of the Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></td></tr></table></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">As part of this program, which is intended to supplement the Company&#8217;s existing compensation arrangements, each of Tidewater&#8217;s named executive officers (the &#8220;Executives&#8221;) entered into an Incentive Bonus Agreement (the &#8220;Agreement&#8221;).&nbsp;&nbsp;The Agreements were authorized by the compensation committee of the board of directors of Tidewater (the &#8220;Committee&#8221;) following consultation with its outside compensation consultant and were executed on the Effective Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">The Agreement provides that the Executive is eligible to receive a cash bonus (the &#8220;Bonus&#8221;), payable in three installments as follows:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.46%;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(1) the first installment (50% of the Bonus) will be paid as soon as practicable after the Effective Date; </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.46%;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(2) the second installment (25% of the Bonus) will be paid on the earliest to occur of (a) the date that all of the limited covenant waivers granted to the Company by certain significant lenders and noteholders expire without extension or substitution, (b) the execution date of any definitive agreement providing for a Restructuring (as defined in the Agreement), and (c) 120 days after the Effective Date; and </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:7.46%;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">(3) the third installment (final 25% of the Bonus) will be paid on the earlier of (a) the consummation of a Restructuring or (b) the first anniversary of the Effective Date.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">The Agreement provides for a full or partial clawback of Bonus amounts paid to the Executive if, during the one-year period following the Effective Date (the &#8220;Retention Period&#8221;), the Executive leaves the Company&#8217;s employment under two scenarios.&nbsp;&nbsp;Specifically, if the Executive terminates his employment without Good Reason (as defined in the Agreement), including retirement, he will be required to repay a pro rata portion of any amounts already paid to him, based on the aggregate amount paid and the percentage of the Retention Period worked.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition, in the event of a termination by the Company for Cause (as defined in the Agreement), the Executive will be required to repay any portion of the Bonus he has already received and will forfeit all rights to any future payments under the Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Payment of the Bonus will also be accelerated under certain circumstances.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the Executive&#8217;s employment terminates due to his death or Disability (as defined in the Agreement), if the Company terminates his employment without Cause, if the Executive terminates employment with Good Reason, or if a Change of Control (as defined in the Agreement) occurs during the Retention Period, then the Executive will be entitled to receive full payout of any unpaid installments.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, in the case of termination by the Company without Cause or by the Executive with Good Reason, such payout is conditioned upon the execution of a full waiver and release of claims.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">The Agreement also includes certain restrictive covenants (including agreements not to compete or solicit Company clients or employees) that will apply during the Retention Period and, in the event that the Executive leaves during the Retention Period without Good Reason, for one year from the date of termination.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.46%;font-size:11pt;">&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Item 9.01.<font style="margin-left:36pt;">Financial Statements and Exhibits.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">This Incentive Bonus Agreement (this &#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Agreement</font>&#8221;) is entered into between Tidewater Inc., a Delaware corporation (&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Tidewater</font>&#8221; and, together with its subsidiaries, the &#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Company</font>&#8221;) and [________________] (the &#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Employee</font>&#8221; and, together with Tidewater, the &#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Parties</font>&#8221;), an employee and officer of Tidewater, effective December 15, 2016 (the &#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Effective Date</font>&#8221;).&nbsp;&nbsp;Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement have the respective meanings provided in <font style="text-decoration:underline;">Appendix A</font>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;">The Employee will not, directly or indirectly, for himself or others or in association with any other person, own, manage, operate, control, be employed in an executive, managerial, or supervisory capacity by, or otherwise engage or participate in, or allow his skill, knowledge, experience or reputation to be used in connection with, the ownership, management, operation, or control of any company or other business enterprise engaged in the Restricted Business within any of the Restricted Area; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prohibit the Employee from making passive investments as long as the Employee does not beneficially own more than 1% of the equity interests of a publicly-traded business enterprise engaged in the Restricted Business within any of the Restricted Area.&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of this paragraph, &#8220;beneficially own&#8221; shall have the same meaning ascribed to that term in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</p></td></tr></table></div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><font style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Tidewater and the Employee have executed this Agreement, which shall be effective as of the Effective Date.</font></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><a name="_AEIOULastRenderedPageBreakAEIOU9"></a><font style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Appendix A</font><font style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><br /></font><font style="text-decoration:underline;">Definitions</font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:12pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement (including the preamble and the recitals), the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Beneficiary</font>&#8221; means the person or persons designated by the Employee to receive, in the event of his death, any amounts remaining payable under this Agreement, which need not be the same as the beneficiary designation made under any other plan of the Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the Employee fails to designate a beneficiary, then the Beneficiary shall be deemed to be the Employee&#8217;s surviving spouse.&nbsp;&nbsp;If the Employee has no surviving spouse, any amounts remaining payable under this Agreement upon the Employee&#8217;s death shall be payable to the executor or personal representative of the Employee&#8217;s estate. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Cause</font>&#8221;, as determined in the sole discretion of the Committee, means either (i) the willful and continued failure of the Employee to substantially perform his duties with the Company (other than any such failure resulting from a Disability), after a written demand for substantial performance is delivered to the Employee by the Committee that (1) specifically identifies the manner in which the Committee believes that the Employee has not substantially performed his duties and (2) provides the Employee with (a) an opportunity to discuss the alleged conduct with, at the Company&#8217;s election, either the chair of the Committee or the chair of the Board, and (b) with respect to conduct that is susceptible of cure, a reasonable opportunity to cure, or (ii) the willful engaging by the Employee in conduct which is demonstrably and materially injurious to the Company, monetarily or otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of this provision, no act or failure to act, on the part of the Employee, shall be considered &#8220;willful&#8221; unless it is done, or omitted to be done, by the Employee in bad faith or without reasonable belief that his action or omission was in the best interests of the Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any act, or failure to act, based upon authority given pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by the Committee or upon the instructions of a senior officer of the Company shall be conclusively presumed to be done, or omitted to be done, by the Employee in good faith and in the best interests of the Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><a name="_AEIOULastRenderedPageBreakAEIOU10"></a>&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Confidential Information</font>&#8221; means confidential and proprietary information, knowledge, or data of any nature and in any form (including information that is electronically transmitted or stored on any form of magnetic or electronic storage media) of the past, current, or prospective business or operations of any member of the Tidewater Group, that is not publicly known, whether or not marked confidential, including without limitation information relating to any (i) services, projects, or jobs; (ii) estimating or bidding procedures; (iii) bidding strategies; (iv) present and future business plans, actual or potential business acquisitions or joint ventures, capital expenditure projects, and cost summaries; (v) trade secrets; (vi) marketing data, strategies, or techniques, (vii) financial reports, budgets, projections, and cost analyses; (viii) pricing information, codes, and analyses; (ix) employee lists; (x) customer records, customer lists, and customer source lists; (xi) confidential filings with any government agency; and (xii) internal notes and memoranda relating to any of the foregoing, provided that Confidential Information shall not include any information, knowledge, or data that is now, or hereafter </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Cumulative Payments</font>&#8221; means the sum of all Installments paid to the Employee under this Agreement as of the Termination Date.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Disability</font>&#8221; means a condition that would entitle the Employee to receive benefits under the Company&#8217;s long-term disability insurance policy because he is either totally disabled or partially disabled, as such terms are defined in the Company&#8217;s policy as in effect on the Effective Date or as similar terms are defined in any successor policy.&nbsp;&nbsp;The &#8220;Termination Date&#8221; for a termination due to Disability shall be the first day on which the Employee is eligible (or would have been eligible, had he applied timely for such payments) to receive payments under such policy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Good Reason</font>&#8221; means the existence of any of the following, without the Employee&#8217;s written consent:&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) a material diminution in the Employee&#8217;s base salary or target annual bonus opportunity, except for any across-the-board reductions approved by the Committee that affect all executive officers of Tidewater; (ii) a material diminution in the Employee&#8217;s authority, duties, or responsibilities; (iii) a material diminution in the authority, duties, or responsibilities of the supervisor to whom the Employee is required to report;<sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">2</sup><sup style="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top"></sup> or (iv) a material change to the Employee&#8217;s work location, including, but not limited to, requiring the Employee to be based more than 50 miles from the location at which he primarily provides services to the Company as of the Effective Date; provided, in each case, that the Employee&#8217;s termination shall not be considered to have been with Good Reason unless he provides written notice to the Committee of the condition constituting Good Reason within 90 days of its initial occurrence and such condition remains uncured for at least 30 days following the Committee&#8217;s receipt of such notice.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Pro-Rata Bonus</font>&#8221; means the Cumulative Payments multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of full months between the Effective Date and the Termination Date and the denominator of which is 12, rounded up to the nearest whole dollar.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Restricted Business</font>&#8221; means the businesses of providing vessel services for the offshore oil and gas, marine construction, LNG terminal support and other related industries.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><a name="_AEIOULastRenderedPageBreakAEIOU11"></a>&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Restructuring</font>&#8221; means the earliest to occur of the following: (i) any out-of-court agreement for the restructuring of the Company&#8217;s senior indebtedness that is achieved, without limitation, through (a) a solicitation of waivers and consents from some or all existing senior debtholders that results in a material modification of covenants and/or maturity extensions in existing senior indebtedness, (b) repurchase, settlement or forgiveness of all or substantially all of the existing senior indebtedness, (c) conversion of all or substantially all of the existing senior indebtedness into equity, (d) an exchange offer including the issuance of new securities in exchange for all or substantially all of the existing senior indebtedness, or (e) other similar transactions or series of transactions; (ii) a confirmed plan of reorganization under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the &#8220;Bankruptcy Code&#8221;) or similar provision under the laws of </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><font style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">any other jurisdiction providing for the restructuring of the Company&#8217;s balance sheet, or (iii) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, on a consolidated basis, or a majority of the outstanding stock of the Company in one or more transactions under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or pursuant to a confirmed chapter 11 plan or similar provision under the laws of any other jurisdiction. </font></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Restructuring Effective Date</font>&#8221; means the effective date of a Restructuring.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Tidewater Group</font>&#8221; means the Company and any joint ventures in which the Company participates.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">&#8220;<font style="text-decoration:underline;">Waiver Expiration Date</font>&#8221; means the date that all of the limited covenant waivers granted to the Company by certain significant lenders and noteholders expire without having been extended or substituted with new waivers.&nbsp;&nbsp;As of the Effective Date, the most recent such waivers were effective on November 11, 2016 with an expiration date of January 27, 2017.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:12pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:7.69%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Company is a company with extensive worldwide and offshore operations and it is the Parties&#8217; intent that the non-competition covenant be given as broad a geographic effect as is lawful.&nbsp;&nbsp;Accordingly, in addition to the foregoing specified locations, it is the Parties&#8217; intent that the noncompetition covenant set forth in the Agreement be given effect throughout the United States and worldwide, to the extent that the Employee would seek to provide prohibited services to a company in competition with the Company in any of the jurisdictions in which it operates.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the extent that a court of relevant jurisdiction determines the geographic scope set forth herein to be overbroad, the Parties hereby consent to such modification as the court may order such that the broadest possible geographic footprint of the non-competition covenant is enforceable.</p>
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