Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

A Special Meeting of the Stockholders (the "Special Meeting") of Talos Energy Inc. (the "Company") was held on February 8, 2023, in person at Three Allen Center, 333 Clay Street, Suite 3300, Houston, Texas 77002 at 10:00 a.m. (Central Time). The following are the final voting results and a brief description of each matter submitted to the Company's stockholders at that meeting. Each proposal is described in more detail in the proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2023 (the "proxy statement/consent solicitation statement/prospectus"). As of December 23, 2022, the record date of the Special Meeting, there were a total of 82,570,328 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "Talos Common Stock") outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. At the Special Meeting, 68,466,175 shares of the Company's common stock were present in person or represented by proxy at the Special Meeting; therefore, a quorum was present.

At the Special Meeting, the Company's stockholders were asked to consider and vote upon the following proposals:



     •    Proposal No. 1: A proposal (the "Share Issuance Proposal") to approve,
          for purposes of complying with Section 312.03 of the New York Stock
          Exchange Listed Company Manual, the potential issuance of shares of Talos
          Common Stock to the equityholders of EnVen Energy Corporation ("EnVen")
          in connection with the mergers contemplated by the terms of the Agreement
          and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 21, 2022, by and between the
          Company, Talos Production Inc., Tide Merger Sub I Inc., Tide Merger Sub
          II LLC, Tide Merger Sub III LLC, BCC Enven Investments, L.P. and EnVen
          (the "Merger Agreement").



     •    Proposal No. 2: To consider and vote upon each of the following
          subproposals (collectively, the "A&R Charter Proposals") to approve and
          adopt an amendment and restatement of the Second Amended and Restated
          Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the "A&R Charter"):



         •   Proposal No. 2A: To declassify the Board of Directors of the Company
             (the "Talos Board") from three classes to one class at the 2025 annual
             meeting of stockholders, with each Class I, Class II and Class III
             director being elected annually for a one-year term thereafter;



         •   Proposal No. 2B: To provide that members of the Talos Board may be
             removed, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of the Company
             stockholders holding at least a majority of the voting power of the
             outstanding shares of Talos Common Stock;



         •   Proposal No. 2C: To provide that the Company's Amended and Restated
             Bylaws may be amended, altered or repealed by the affirmative vote of
             the holders of a majority of the voting power of the Company's capital
             stock outstanding and entitled to vote thereon;



         •   Proposal No. 2D: To clarify that, to the fullest extent permitted by
             and enforceable under applicable law, the exclusive forum for claims
             under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, shall be the federal
             district courts of the United States, and that such exclusive forum
             provision shall not apply to claims seeking to enforce any liability
             or duty created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
             and



         •   Proposal No. 2E: To make certain other administrative and clarifying
             changes to the A&R Charter that the Talos Board deems appropriate to
             effect the foregoing amendment proposals and the termination of the
             Amended and Restated Stockholders' Agreement, dated as of March 29,
             2022, by and among the Company, Riverstone Talos Energy EquityCo LLC,
             Riverstone Talos Energy DebtCo LLC, Riverstone V FT Corp Holdings,
             L.P., ILX Holdings II, LLC and Riverstone V Castex 2014 Holdings, L.P.
             as contemplated by the Parent Support Agreement, dated as of
             September 21, 2022, by and among the Company, EnVen and entities
             affiliated with Riverstone Holdings LLC.



     •    Proposal No. 3: A proposal (the "A&R Bylaws Proposal") to approve, on a
          non-binding, advisory basis, an amendment and restatement of the Amended
          and Restated Bylaws of the Company.



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     •    Proposal No. 4: A proposal (the "Adjournment Proposal") to approve the
          adjournment of the Special Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary
          or appropriate, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies in the
          event that there are insufficient votes for, or otherwise in connection
          with, the approval of any of the proposals.

The following are the final voting results for the proposals considered and voted upon at the Special Meeting:



1.  The Share Issuance Proposal was approved by the Company's stockholders. The
    voting results were as follows:



VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED
68,263,255      131,482          71,438



2.  Each of the A&R Charter Proposals was approved by the Company's stockholders.
    The voting results were as follows:

Proposal 2A:



                                                BROKER
VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   NON-VOTES
68,434,982      17,434           13,759            0


Proposal 2B:

                                                BROKER
VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   NON-VOTES
68,426,851      19,300           20,024            0


Proposal 2C:

                                                BROKER
VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   NON-VOTES
68,440,167      14,555           11,453            0


Proposal 2D:

                                                BROKER
VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   NON-VOTES
63,765,438     4,686,313         14,424            0


Proposal 2E:

                                                BROKER

VOTES FOR VOTES AGAINST VOTES ABSTAINED NON-VOTES 68,062,023 372,681 31,471

            0



3.  The A&R Bylaws Proposal was approved, on an advisory basis, by the Company's
    stockholders. The voting results were as follows:



                               VOTES      BROKER
VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   ABSTAINED   NON-VOTES
67,996,809      447,629       21,737         0



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4.  The Adjournment Proposal was approved by the Company's stockholders. The
    voting results were as follows:



VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED
62,493,905     5,955,708         16,562


Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

A copy of the press release issued on February 8, 2023 regarding the Special Meeting results is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K under Item 7.01 and set forth in the attached Exhibit 99.1 is deemed to be "furnished" solely pursuant to Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.




(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit
  No.     Description

99.1        Press Release, dated February 8, 2023.

104       Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with Inline XBRL document).



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