Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:58:20 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:16:45 GMT Content-Length: 7808 Halter Marine Group, Inc. - Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
For release: June 26, 1997
Contact: A. J. Rizzo
Tel: 504-248-2237

 

MAUREEN O. SULLIVAN TO JOIN HALTER GROUP AS SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL

GULFPORT, Miss...Halter Marine Group, Inc. (AMEX:HLX) Gulfport, Miss., announced today that Maureen O. Sullivan will join the company as senior vice-president and general counsel.

Sullivan is a 1979 cum laude graduate of Tulane University School of Law and holds a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans. She is currently a partner in a New Orleans-based law firm, McGlinchey Stafford, LLC, and is the founding and managing partner of that firm's Dallas office. McGlinchey Stafford is a 148 attorney full service law firm with offices in New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Baton Rouge, and Jackson, Mississippi.

Sullivan has extensive experience in business law and has been lead attorney on a wide variety of projects for corporations in the construction, fabrication, financial services, insurance and other industries. She has worked with Halter Marine Group, Inc. since 1983, as outside counsel for a predecessor of the company, Halter Marine, Inc. Sullivan continued her involvement with the company from McGlinchey's Dallas office as outside counsel to Trinity Industries, Inc., Halter Marine Group, Inc.'s former parent.

In making the announcement, John Dane III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Halter said, "Due to Halter's rapid growth and anticipated expansion, our strategy includes building a committed, experienced management team. Maureen Sullivan is thoroughly familiar with our business and the opportunities and challenges we face. Her extensive legal experience will assist us in responding quickly and effectively to the growing pace and scope of our business."

Sullivan will join Halter's management at its corporate headquarters in Gulfport on Aug. 1.

Prior to her relocation to Dallas in 1989, Sullivan was a long-time resident of New Orleans. She has two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah Sullivan. She is a member of the Louisiana, American and Dallas bar associations and of the Business Law and Tort and Insurance Practice sections of the American Bar Association. She has authored numerous articles for the Louisiana Bar Association and recently spoke at an annual conference of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on insurance coverage issues for the construction industry.

Halter Marine Group, Inc. is a leader in the marine construction industry with 17 shipyards in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida specializing in the design, construction, conversion and repair of mobile offshore drilling units and a wide variety of vessels for commercial, governmental and yacht markets in the U.S. and worldwide. Shipyards of the Halter Marine Group have delivered over 2,000 vessels in the past 40 years.

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