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UNITED STATES

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SCHEDULE 14A

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Shareholder Meeting to be Held on 15 June 2020.

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VALARIS PLC		Meeting Information Meeting Type: Annual General Meeting of Shareholders For record holders as of: 23 March 2020 Date: 15 June 2020 Time: 12:00 p.m. London Time Location: 110 Cannon Street London, EC4N 6EU, United Kingdom

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Valaris plc

The Board of Directors recommends you vote "For" each nominee in Resolution 1 and "For" Resolutions 2 through 12.

1.	To re-elect Directors to serve until the 2021 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
	Nominees:
	1a. William E. Albrecht	5.	To approve an amendment to the 2018 Long-Term Incentive Plan
	1b. Frederick Arnold	5.
	1c. Thomas P. Burke	6.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy
	1d. Mary E. Francis CBE
	1e. Georges J. Lambert
	1f. Suzanne P. Nimocks	7.	A non-binding advisory vote to approve the Directors Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.
	1g. Thierry Pilenko	8.	A non-binding advisory vote to approve the compensation of our named executive officers.
	1h. Paul E. Rowsey, III	9.	A non-binding advisory vote to approve the reports of the auditors and the directors and the U.K. statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019.
	1i. Charles L. Szews	9.
	1j. Adam Weitzman	10.	To authorise the Board of Directors to allot shares, the full text of which can be found in "Resolution 10" of the accompanying proxy statement.
2.	To ratify the Audit Committee's appointment of KPMG LLP (U.S.) as our U.S. independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending 31 December 2020.	10.
2.		11.	To approve the general disapplication of pre-emption rights, the full text of which can be found in "Resolution 11" of the accompanying proxy statement.
3.	To appoint KPMG LLP (U.K.) as our U.K. statutory auditors under the U.K. Companies Act 2006 (to hold office from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders at which accounts are laid before the Company).	12.	To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment, the full text of which can be found in "Resolution 12" of the accompanying proxy statement.


4.	To authorise the Audit Committee to determine our U.K. statutory auditors' remuneration.
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