REG - Competition and Mkts - Merger Update: Noble/Maersk Drilling
09/05/2022 08:45
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20220509:nRSI5197Ka&default-theme=true RNS Number : 5197K Competition and Markets Authority 09 May 2022 CMA to look at Noble Corporation's (Noble) and The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S' (Maersk Drilling) undertakings offer in detail Anticipated merger between Noble Corporation and Maersk Drilling On 22 April 2022, the CMA announced that it is or may be the case that the above Merger has resulted or may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within a market or markets in the United Kingdom. On 29 April 2022, Noble Corporation and Maersk Drilling offered undertakings to the CMA. The CMA has considered the undertakings offered and today announced that it considers that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the undertaking offered, or a modified version of it, might be accepted by the CMA to remedy the substantial lessening of competition identified by the CMA. The CMA now has until 6 July 2022 to decide whether to accept the undertaking, with the possibility to extend this timeframe to 1 September 2022 if it considers there are special reasons for doing so. The text of this decision will be placed on the Competition and Markets Authority's web site at https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases (https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases) as soon as is reasonably practical. In the event of media enquiries please email Press@cma.gov.uk (mailto:Press@cma.gov.uk) on 02037386460. This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com) or visit www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/) . RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy) . END MERBUGDUUSGDGDU