Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 26

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 preceding three years, was an executive officer of the Company;

• the director or an immediate family member of the director received, within any 12-month period during the preceding three years, more than $120,000 in direct compensation from the Company, other than director and committee fees and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service (provided such compensation is not contingent in any way on continued service);

• the director is a current partner or employee of the Company’s internal or external auditor;

• an immediate family member of the director is a current partner of the Company’s internal or external auditor;

• an immediate family member of the director is currently employed by the Company’s internal or external auditor and personally works on the Company’s audit;

• the director or an immediate family member of the director was, during the preceding three years, a partner or employee of the Company’s internal or external auditor and personally worked on the Company’s audit within that time;

• the director or an immediate family member of the director is, or, during the preceding three years was, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of the Company’s present executive officers serves or served on that company’s Compensation Committee at the same time; or

• the director currently is an executive officer or an employee, or an immediate family member of the director currently is an executive officer, of a company that made payments to, or received payments from, the Company for property or services in an amount which, in any single fiscal year within the last three fiscal years, exceeded the greater of $1 million or two percent of such other company’s consolidated gross revenues.

The following will not be considered by our Board to be a material relationship that would impair a director’s independence: If a director is an executive officer of, or beneficially owns in excess of 10 percent equity interest in, another company

• that does business with the Company, and the amount of the annual payments to the Company is less than five percent of the annual consolidated gross revenues of the Company;

• that does business with the Company, and the amount of the annual payments by the Company to such other company is less than five percent of the annual consolidated gross revenues of the Company; or

• to which the Company was indebted at the end of its last fiscal year in an aggregate amount that is less than five percent of the consolidated assets of the Company.

For relationships not covered by the guidelines in the immediately preceding paragraph, the determination of whether the relationship is material or not, and therefore whether the director would be independent