SUGAR LAND,
Texas, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble
Corporation plc ("Noble") (CSE: NOBLE, NYSE: NE) today announces
changes to its share capital.
During the period since December 31, 2023, 5,656 new A ordinary
shares each with a nominal value of USD
0.00001 have been issued to certain employees of Noble at no
cost as a result of the vesting of restricted stock units.
The new A ordinary shares carry the same rights
as the existing A ordinary shares of Noble. The new A ordinary
shares will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange as well as
admitted to trading and official listing on Nasdaq
Copenhagen.
As a result of the changes, there are a total of
140,779,406 A ordinary shares of Noble issued and outstanding
with a nominal value of USD 0.00001
each.
Pursuant to section 32 of the Danish Capital
Markets Act, Noble also hereby announces the total nominal value of
its issued share capital and the total number of voting rights:
|
Number of shares
|
Number of voting rights
|
Share capital
|
A ordinary shares of
USD 0.00001
|
140,779,406
|
140,779,406
|
USD
1,407.79406
|
Total
|
140,779,406
|
140,779,406
|
USD 1,407.79406
|
Exchange of shares tradable on Nasdaq
Copenhagen for shares tradeable on the New York Stock
Exchange
Noble's shares are both listed on the New York
Stock Exchange (identified by CUSIP G65431127) and admitted to
trading and official listing on Nasdaq Copenhagen (in the form of
share entitlements and identified by ISIN GB00BMXNWH07).
Holders of Noble shares (in the form share
entitlements) tradeable on Nasdaq Copenhagen can exchange their
shares (in the form of share entitlements) for shares tradeable on
the New York Stock Exchange after completing a transfer procedure.
To transfer shares or share entitlements between markets,
shareholders must instruct their financial intermediary (bank or
broker) to contact Euronext (Noble's Danish transfer agent). For
further information visit
https://noblecorp.com/investors/stock-information/FAQ/default.aspx.
While the shares listed on the New York Stock
Exchange are denominated in USD and are eligible to receive
dividends in USD and the share entitlements admitted to trading and
official listing on Nasdaq Copenhagen are traded in DKK and are
eligible to receive dividends in DKK, the shares and share
entitlements are entitled to identical dividends and voting
rights.
About Noble Corporation
Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor
for the oil and gas industry. The Company owns and operates
one of the most modern, versatile, and technically advanced fleets
in the offshore drilling industry. Noble and its predecessors
have been engaged in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells
since 1921. Noble performs, through its subsidiaries,
contract drilling services with a fleet of offshore drilling units
focused largely on ultra-deepwater and high specification jackup
drilling opportunities in both established and emerging regions
worldwide. For further information visit www.noblecorp.com or
email investors@noblecorp.com.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
This announcement is for information purposes
only and does not constitute or contain any invitation,
solicitation, recommendation, offer or advice to any person to
subscribe for or otherwise acquire or dispose of any securities of
Noble.
Certain statements in this announcement,
including any attachments hereto, may constitute forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are statements (other than
statements of historical fact) relating to future events and Noble
and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Noble Group")
anticipated or planned financial and operational performance. The
words "targets", "believes", "continues", "expects", "aims",
"intends", "plans", "seeks", "will", "may", "might", "anticipates",
"would", "could", "should", "estimates", "projects", "potentially"
or similar expressions or the negatives thereof, identify certain
of these forward-looking statements. The absence of these words,
however, does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking.
Other forward-looking statements can be identified in the context
in which the statements are made.
Although Noble believes that the expectations
reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of
the date of this announcement, such forward-looking statements are
based on Noble's current expectations, estimates, forecasts,
assumptions and projections about the Noble Group's business and
the industry in which the Noble Group operates and/or which has
been extracted from publications, reports and other documents
prepared by the Noble Group and are not guarantees of future
performance or development and involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other important factors beyond the Noble Group's
control that could cause the Noble Group's actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from any future
results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements.
Any forward-looking statements included in this
announcement, including any attachment hereto, speak only as of
today. Noble does not intend, and does not assume, any obligations
to update any forward-looking statements contained herein, except
as may be required by law or the rules of the New York Stock
Exchange or Nasdaq Copenhagen. All subsequent written and oral
forward-looking statements attributable to Noble or to persons
acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by
the cautionary statements referred to above and contained in this
announcement, including any attachment hereto.
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