Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
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Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
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, in various roles of increasing responsibility since January 2007. Most recently, Ms. Yeung served as Audit Managing Director from October 2020 through September 2023, and as Audit Senior Manager from July 2014 through October 2020, serving clients across a range of industries including offshore drilling. Ms. Yeung is a certified public accountant and received a Bachelor of Accountancy and a Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance from Loyola University. |
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#### Corporate Governance
Board Independence

Our Board has determined that:

• each of Ms. Douglas, Mr. Hemmingsen, Mr. Hirshberg, Ms. Holth, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Maxwell, Ms. Pickard and Mr. Sledge qualifies as an “independent” director under the NYSE corporate governance rules.

• each of Mr. Jennings (Chair), Ms. Douglas, Ms. Holth and Mr. Sledge, constituting all the members of the audit committee of the Board (the “Audit Committee”), qualifies as “independent” under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act; and

• each of Mr. Hirshberg (Chair), Ms. Douglas Mr. Sledge and Mr. Maxwell, constituting all the members of the Compensation Committee, qualifies as

• “independent” under Rule 10C-1(b)(1) under the Exchange Act and the applicable rules of the NYSE; and

• a “non-employee director” for purposes of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act.

Independent non-management directors comprise in full the membership of each committee described below under “—Board Committees, Meetings and Other Governance Matters.”

Mr. Eifler, our current President and Chief Executive Officer, is not independent because of his service as a member of our senior management.

#### Noble Corporation plc| 2025 Proxy Statement17

#### Resolutions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
In order for a director to be considered independent under the NYSE rules, our Board must affirmatively determine that the director has no material relationship with the Company other than in his or her capacity as a director of the Company.

The Company’s corporate governance guidelines provide that a director will not be independent if,

• the director is, or during the preceding three years, was employed by the Company;

• an immediate family member of the director is, or during the