SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-014328 to SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES INC (CIK 0000886835)
SUPERIOR ENERGY SERVICES INC (CIK 0000886835)
Date: Dec. 30, 2024 · CIK: 0000886835 · Accession: 0000000000-24-014328
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December 30, 2024
David Lesar
Chief Executive Officer
Superior Energy Services, Inc.
1001 Louisiana Street, Suite 2900
Houston, TX 7702
Re:Superior Energy Services, Inc.
Schedule 13E-3 filed December 17, 2024
File No. 005-43588
Dear David Lesar:
We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In some of our
comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your
disclosure.
Please respond to these comments by providing the requested information or advise us
as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your
facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Schedule 13E-3 filed December 17, 2024
General
1.We note that Mr. Flores and Mr. Foster serve as directors and GoldenTree, which is
affiliated with them, beneficially owns approximately 51.4% of the Class A Common
Stock. Please advise why Mr. Flores, Mr. Foster and GoldenTree have not been
identified as filing persons in the Schedule 13E-3. Provide the same analysis with
respect to Mr. Citarrella and Monarch. Please note that each new filing person must
individually comply with the filing, dissemination and disclosure requirements of
Schedule 13E-3. In this regard, the reasons for the Transaction and the alternatives
considered by these affiliates may be different than those of the Company, and this
fact should be reflected in the disclosure. In addition, please be sure that any new
filers sign the Schedule 13E-3.
We note that the Fairness Opinion states that it “is furnished for the use of the Board
… and may not be used for any other purpose without [Houlihan Lokey’s] prior
written consent.” Please disclose, if true, that Houlihan Lokey has consented to use of 2.
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its materials in the filing.
3.We note that Houlihan Lokey provided a preliminary financial analysis to the Board
on December 6, 2024. Provide the disclosure required by Item 1015(b)(6) of
Regulation M-A with respect to that presentation.
4.Please quantify the fee paid or to be paid to Houlihan Lokey. See Item 9 of Schedule
13E-3 and corresponding Item 1015(b)(4) of Regulation M-A.
Fairness of the Transaction, page 16
5.Revise to considerably expand this section so that it includes the results and
illustrative ranges for each point of analysis conducted by the financial advisor, along
with the results yielded by each. See Item 9 of Schedule 13E-3 and Item 1015 of
Regulation M-A.
6.Please include all projections prepared by management and provided to Houlihan
Lokey for purposes of the fairness opinion, including any forecasts pertaining to the
discounted cash flow analysis. Your expanded discussion should also discuss the
underlying assumptions and limitations on any projections provided.
7.The factors listed in Instruction 2 to Item 1014 of Regulation M-A and paragraphs (c),
(d) and (e) of Item 1014 are generally relevant to each filing person’s fairness
determination and should be discussed in reasonable detail. See paragraph (b) of Item
1014 of Regulation M-A and Questions 20 and 21 of Exchange Act Release No. 34-
17719 (April 13, 1981). Please revise this section to include the factors described in
clauses (iii), (iv), and (v) of Instruction 2 to Item 1014 or explain why such factors
were not deemed material or relevant to the fairness determination of the Board.
8.We note your disclosure that the Board has determined “that effecting the Transaction
by means of the Stock Splits is procedurally and substantively fair to all stockholders
of the Company, including the unaffiliated stockholders who will only receive cash
consideration in the Stock Splits and unaffiliated stockholders who will continue as
owners of the Company.” The disclosure required by Item 1014(a) of Regulation M-A
should separately address the fairness of the Transaction to unaffiliated
securityholders as a distinct group. Please revise accordingly.
9.Please address how any filing person relying on the Fairness Opinion was able to
reach the fairness determination as to all unaffiliated securityholders given that the
Fairness Opinion addressed fairness with respect to the Cashed-Out Stockholders,
rather than all securityholders unaffiliated with the Company. See Exchange Act Rule
13e-3(a)(4), Item 8 of Schedule 13E-3, and Item 1014(a) of Regulation M-A.
Executive Officers, page 31
10.Many of the biographies disclosed in this section do not provide all of the information
required by Item 1003(c)(2) of Regulation M-A for the past five years. Please revise
accordingly.
We remind you that the filing persons are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy
of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by
the staff.
December 30, 2024
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Please direct any questions to Blake Grady at 202-551-8573.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Mergers & Acquisitions