Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 30

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 30
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 of Meetings in 2024 |     |     9 |     |            4 |     |            6 |     |              4 |

(1) Audit committee financial expert

(2) Independent board chair

(3) Effective at the conclusion of the Meeting, Mr. Maxwell and Ms. Pickard, who are not standing for re-election at the Meeting, will no longer serve on the Compensation Committee and the Nominating & Governance Committee, respectively and the size of the Board will be reduced from nine to seven.

Audit Committee

The primary purposes of the Audit Committee are to:

• Assist the Board with oversight of:

• the integrity of our financial statements and our financial reporting process and systems of internal controls regarding finance and accounting;

• our compliance with the Company’s standards of business ethics and legal and regulatory requirements;

• the qualifications and independence of our independent auditors; and

• the performance of our independent auditors and internal auditors; and

• Prepare reports of the Audit Committee that are required by the rules of the SEC to be included in the proxy statement for our annual general meeting of shareholders.

The primary responsibilities of the Audit Committee include, among others, to:

• appoint, compensate, retain and oversee the Company’s auditors (including review and approval of the terms of engagement and fees);

• review with the auditors the Company’s financial reports (and other financial information) provided to the SEC and the investing public;

• review the Company’s system of internal controls, significant accounting principles and policies, and critical accounting policies;

• review the activities, budget, staffing, and structure of the internal audit function;

• review the Company’s major financial risk exposures and steps taken to monitor and mitigate such risks;

• provide oversight of the cybersecurity system of the Company, the process to identify, assess, manage and mitigate risks related to cybersecurity and the Company's process to respond to and manage, cybersecurity threats, including cybersecurity incidents;

• review related party transactions and conflicts of interest; and

#### Noble Corporation plc| 2025 Proxy Statement21

#### Resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
• establish and maintain procedures for the receipt, retention, and treatment of complaints received by the Company regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters as well as the confidential, anonymous submission by employees of the Company of concerns regarding any questionable accounting or auditing matters.

Our Board has determined that each of Ms. Douglas, Mr. Jennings, Ms. Holth