Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-014554
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Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 424B5
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 Revolving Credit Facilities. The Issuer’s subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities from the Issuer and such subsidiaries have no obligation to pay any amounts due on the Notes or to provide the Issuer with funds to meet the payment obligations on the Notes. Any payment of dividends, loans or advances by the Issuer’s subsidiaries could be subject to statutory or contractual restrictions and will be contingent upon the subsidiaries’ earnings and business considerations. The Issuer’s right to receive any assets of any of its subsidiaries upon their bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar

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reorganization, and the rights of the holders of the Notes, will be structurally subordinated to all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities of such subsidiaries.

The Notes are subject to prior claims of secured creditors.

The Notes will be unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Issuer, and will rank equally in right of payment with all of the Issuer’s existing and future unsecured, unsubordinated indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations and will be effectively subordinated in right of payment to all of the Issuer’s existing and future secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness. As of December 31, 2024, the Issuer did not have any significant secured debt outstanding. However, each of the indenture governing the Notes and the agreements governing the Issuer’s credit facilities permits the Issuer and its subsidiaries to incur secured debt under certain circumstances, and the amounts could be substantial. If the Issuer incurs any debt secured by its assets or the assets of its subsidiaries, these assets could be subject to the claims of secured creditors that are prior to your claim as a holder of Notes.

In the event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, the pledged assets of the Issuer would be available to satisfy obligations in respect of the secured debt before any payment could be made on the Notes. As a result, the Notes will be effectively subordinated to any secured debt that the Issuer may have to the extent of the value of the assets securing such debt. To the extent that such pledged assets cannot satisfy such secured debt, the holders of such debt would have a claim for any shortfall that would rank equally in right of payment with the Notes.

The Issuer may choose to redeem the Notes of any series prior to maturity.

The Issuer may redeem some or all of the Notes of any series at any time. See “ Description of Notes —