13G Filing: Firefly Value Partners and Noble Corp PLC (NE)

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CUSIP No. G65431101 SCHEDULE
13G
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8 OF 9
     
Item 1(a).   Name
of Issuer:
    Noble
Corporation plc
Item 1(b).   Address
of Issuer’s Principal Executive Offices:
   

Devonshire
House, 1 Mayfair Place

London,
England, W1J8AJ

Item 2(a).   Name
of Person(s) Filing:
    This
statement (the “Statement”) is being filed by: (i) FVP Master Fund, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted
limited partnership (“FVP Master Fund”), (ii) Firefly Value Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Firefly
Partners”), which serves as the investment manager of FVP Master Fund, (iii) FVP GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“FVP GP”), which serves as the general partner of FVP Master Fund, (iv) Firefly Management Company GP,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Firefly Management”), which serves as the general partner of Firefly
Partners, and (v) Messrs. Ryan Heslop and Ariel Warszawski, the managing members of FVP GP and Firefly Management (all of
the foregoing, collectively, “Reporting Persons”). FVP Master Fund is a private investment vehicle
formed for the purpose of investing and trading in a wide variety of securities and financial instruments. FVP
Master Fund directly owns all of the shares reported in this Statement. Messrs. Heslop and Warszawski, Firefly
Partners, Firefly Management and FVP GP may be deemed to share with FVP Master Fund voting and dispositive power with respect
to such shares.
Item 2(b).   Address
of Principal Business Office, or, if None, Residence:
   

The
Principal Business Office of FVP Master Fund is:

c/o dms
Corporate Services, Ltd.

P.O. Box 1344

dms House

20 Genesis
Close

Grand Cayman,
KY1-1108

Cayman Islands

 

The
Principal Business Officer of Messrs. Heslop and Warszawski, Firefly Partners, FVP GP and Firefly Management is:

 

601 West 26th
Street, Suite 1520

New York,
NY 10001

Item 2(c).   Citizenship:
    For
citizenship information see Item 4 of the cover sheet of each Reporting Person.
Item 2(d).   Title
of Class of Securities:
    Ordinary
Shares

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