Company: NE-WTA
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-015025
Chunk: 60

Company: Noble Corp plc
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 60
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 Cash Retainer |

Hedging and Pledging; Securities Trading Policy

We have adoptedinsider trading policies and procedures governing the purchase, sale and other transactions in our securities by the Company’s directors, officers, and employees, and other covered persons, as well as the Company itself, that we believe are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and applicable exchange listing standards. Our stock trading policy prohibits the purchase by our directors, executive officers, employees and agents of financial instruments (including prepaid variable forward contracts, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds) that are designed to hedge or offset any decrease in the market value of equity securities of the Company held, directly or indirectly, by any director or executive officer. Our stock trading policy prohibits pledging of any Company stock as security by our directors or executive officers and the establishment or use of a margin account with a broker-dealer for the purpose of buying or selling securities of the Company.

The Company’s policy on trading in Company shares also prohibits directors, officers, employees and agents from purchasing, selling or gifting Company securities while in possession of any material information about the Company or its operations that has not been publicly disclosed. As such, and in addition to our pre-clearance procedures, directors, officers and certain designated employees and consultants are prohibited from buying, selling or gifting Company securities during our quarterly blackout periods (which prohibit trading or gifting in our shares during the period around the end of our quarterly reporting periods until we have announced our results and the market has had an appropriate amount of time to incorporate the performance information in our stock price) and during certain situation-specific blackout periods in which developments known to the Company have not yet been disclosed to the public. However, the Company does permit directors, officers or employees to enter into Rule 10b5-1 sales or purchase plans in accordance with SEC regulations and our pre-clearance procedures if they so desire.

The Company stock trading policy is filed as an Exhibit to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

#### Noble Corporation plc| 2025 Proxy Statement43

#### Compensation Discussion and Analysis
Equity Grant Practices

The Company’s practice has been to award restricted stock units to new executives contemporaneously with their hire date and annually to current executives following the first quarter regularly-scheduled meeting of the Compensation Committee.These practices may change in the future. In 2024, we did notgrant TVRSUs or PVRSUs in coordination with the release