Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-014554
Chunk: 26

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 26
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 total business conducted, or assets owned, by AbbVie and its Subsidiaries, as an entirety.

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“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee under the indenture, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Notes of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Notes of that series.

#### Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets
AbbVie shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:

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the Person formed by such consolidation or into which AbbVie is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, AbbVie’s properties and assets substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation, limited liability company or partnership, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume AbbVie’s obligations on the Notes under a supplemental indenture;

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immediately after giving effect to such transaction and treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of AbbVie or a Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by AbbVie or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no event of default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default, shall have happened and be continuing;

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if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such conveyance, transfer or lease, AbbVie’s properties or assets would become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other encumbrance which would not be permitted by the indenture, AbbVie or such successor Person, as the case may be, shall take such steps as shall be necessary to effectively secure the Notes equally and ratably with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured thereby; and

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AbbVie has delivered to the Trustee an officers’ certificate and an opinion of counsel stating compliance with these provisions.

Upon any consolidation of AbbVie with, or merger of AbbVie into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties