Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001104659-25-016521
Chunk: 36

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 424B2
Chunk 36
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 any series publicly available, any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act that is selected by Boston Scientific as a replacement agency for Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, or each of them, as the case may be; provided , however , that the issuer shall not be required to maintain a rating by more than two Rating Agencies at any time.

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“ Rating Event ” means, with respect to any series of notes, the rating of such series of notes shall be decreased by each of the Rating Agencies independently by one or more gradations during the Rating Period (as defined below). If the rating of the notes of any series by each of the Rating Agencies is Investment Grade, then “Rating Event” will mean the rating of the notes of such series shall be decreased by one or more gradations by each Rating Agency so that the ratings of the notes of such series by all of the Rating Agencies fall below Investment Grade, on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 30-day period following public notice of the occurrence of the Change of Control (the “Rating Period”) (which 30-day period shall be extended by no more than 60 days from the date of the occurrence of the Change of Control if the rating of the notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies and each other Rating Agency has either downgraded, or publicly announced that it is considering downgrading, the notes). A Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating will not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus will not be deemed a Rating Event for purposes of the definition of “Change of Control Repurchase Event”) if each Rating Agency making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply does not announce or publicly confirm or inform the trustee under the indenture in writing at our request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control has occurred at the time of the Rating Event).

“ S&P ” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., and its successors.

“ Voting Stock ” means, with respect to any specified person as of any