Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-038188
Chunk: 59

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 59
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illingOn June 9, 2024, Noble entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the “Diamond Merger Agreement”) with Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (“Diamond”), Dolphin Merger Sub 1, Inc., and Dolphin Merger Sub 2, Inc., under which Noble would acquire Diamond in a stock plus cash transaction (the “Diamond Transaction”). On September 4, 2024 (“the Diamond Closing Date”), Noble completed its acquisition of Diamond. Pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Diamond Merger Agreement, Diamond shareholders received 0.2316 shares of Noble, plus cash consideration of $5.65 per share for each share of Diamond. Total consideration for the acquisition was $1.5 billion, which included $610.3 million in cash paid and $879.9 million in non-cash consideration, primarily related to A ordinary shares, par value $0.00001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”) issued to legacy Diamond shareholders and the replacement of each legacy Diamond performance-vesting and time-vesting restricted stock unit covering shares of Diamond. The Diamond Transaction was accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting under ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations, with Noble being treated as the accounting acquirer.

Note 3 — Accounting PronouncementsAccounting Standards AdoptedThere have been no new accounting standards adopted during the current quarter.Recently Issued Accounting StandardsIn May 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2025-03, Business Combinations (Topic 805) and Consolidation (Topic 810): Determining the Accounting Acquirer in the Acquisition of a Variable interest. This update aims to improve the requirements for identifying the accounting acquirer in Topic 805, Business Combinations. The Company does not expect this pronouncement to have any impact on our consolidated financial statements.

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NOBLE CORPORATION plc AND SUBSIDIARIESNOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS(Unless otherwise indicated, dollar and share amounts in tables are in thousands, except per share data)

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The amendments in the update require disclosure, in the notes to financial statements, of specified information about certain costs and