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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

SCHEDULE 14A

Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 1 )

 

 

Filed by the Registrant x

Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ¨

Check the appropriate box:

 

¨  Preliminary Proxy Statement

 

¨  CONFIDENTIAL, FOR USE OF THE COMMISSION ONLY (AS PERMITTED BY RULE 14a-6(e)(2))

 

¨  Definitive Proxy Statement

 

x  Definitive Additional Materials

 

¨  Soliciting Material Pursuant to § 240.14a-12

 

GULF ISLAND FABRICATION, INC.

 

(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)

 

 

  

 

(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)

Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

 

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  (2)  Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies:

 

  

 

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SEC 1913 (04-05)


EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

The prior year’s version of the proxy card was inadvertently filed with the definitive proxy statement of Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (the “Company”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2012. The attached is the 2012 proxy card, which was first mailed to the Company’s shareholders on March 16, 2012 with the Company’s definitive proxy statement.


LOGO

This Proxy is Solicited on Behalf of the Board of Directors of

GULF ISLAND FABRICATION, INC.

The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Kerry J. Chauvin and Deborah Kern-Knoblock, or either of them, proxy for the undersigned, with full power of substitution, to represent the undersigned and to vote, as designated on the reverse side, all of the shares of Common Stock of Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (the “Company”) that the undersigned is entitled to vote held of record by the undersigned on March 8, 2012, at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Company to be held on April 26, 2012 (the “Annual Meeting”), and at all adjournments thereof.

This proxy, when properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed herein by the undersigned shareholder. If no direction is made on a matter listed on the back of this card, this proxy will be voted as the Board of Directors recommends. The individuals designated above will vote in their discretion on any other matter that may properly come before the meeting.

(Please See Reverse Side)

 

¢   14475 ¢


ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF

GULF ISLAND FABRICATION, INC.

April 26, 2012

NOTICE OF INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS:

The Notice of Meeting, proxy statement and proxy card

are available at www.gulfisland.com/eproxy

Please sign, date and mail

your proxy card in the

envelope provided as soon

as possible.

LOGO   Please detach along perforated line and mail in the envelope provided.   LOGO

 

¢     20230300000000000000    4  

042612

 

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE FOR THE NOMINEES LISTED BELOW, FOR THE APPROVAL,

ON AN ADVISORY BASIS, OF THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND FOR THE RATIFICATION OF OUR
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR. PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND RETURN PROMPTLY IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE. PLEASE MARK YOUR VOTE IN
BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN HERE
x

                                FOR    AGAINST    ABSTAIN
1. Election of the nominees for directors.        2.   To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers;    ¨    ¨    ¨
    

 

NOMINEES:

                 
¨   FOR ALL NOMINEES   

O Kerry J. Chauvin

O Jerry D. Dumas, Sr.

                 
                      
¨  

WITHHOLD AUTHORITY

FOR ALL NOMINEES

          3.   To ratify the appointment of the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm; and    ¨    ¨    ¨
                      

¨

 

FOR ALL EXCEPT

(See instructions below)

         

 

4.

 

 

To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting and any adjournments thereof.

                     
           Please mark, sign, date and return this proxy promptly using the enclosed envelope.
          
          
INSTRUCTIONS:   To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark “FOR ALL EXCEPT” and fill in the circle next to each nominee you wish to withhold, as shown here: l             
 
                   
To change the address on your account, please check the box at right and indicate your new address in the address space above. Please note that changes to the registered name(s) on the account may not be submitted via this method.    ¨      

 

Signature of Shareholder        Date:       Signature of Shareholder        Date:    
  Note:  

Please sign exactly as your name or names appear on this Proxy. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as executor, administrator, attorney, trustee or guardian, please give full title as such. If the signer is a corporation, please sign full corporate name by duly authorized officer, giving full title as such. If signer is a partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized person.

 

 

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