Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003537
Chunk: 43

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 43
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 website at www.abbvieinvestor.com. ANTI-HEDGING AND ANTI-PLEDGING POLICIES AbbVie has a formal policy that prohibits directors and officers subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including all of the NEOs, from entering into or engaging in the purchase or sale of financial instruments that are designed to hedge or offset any decrease in the market value of AbbVie equity securities they hold. AbbVie also has a formal policy that prohibits directors and officers subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including all of the NEOs, from pledging AbbVie common stock as collateral for a loan. In addition, the AbbVie Amended and Restated 2013 Incentive Stock Program provides that no long-term incentive award may be assigned, alienated, sold or transferred other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution or as permitted by the compensation committee for estate planning purposes, and no award and no right under any award may be pledged, alienated, attached or otherwise encumbered. All members of senior management, including the company’s NEOs, and certain other employees are required to clear any transaction involving company stock with the Legal department prior to entering into such transaction.

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INSIDER TRADING POLICY AbbVie has adopted a formal insider trading policyapplicable to directors, officers, employees and agents of the company, along with third parties who are in a confidential relationship with AbbVie (collectively, “covered persons”), that we believe is reasonably designed to promote compliance with applicable insider trading laws, rules and regulations and applicable listing standards. Among other things, our insider trading policy (i) prohibits trading by covered persons in our securities while in possession of material non-public information (“MNPI”) about AbbVie or AbbVie securities, except under pre-approved Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, or in the securities of any other company with respect to which such covered persons have received MNPI as a result of their relationship with or employment by AbbVie, (ii) prohibits disclosing MNPI to others who may trade in AbbVie securities or in the securities of any other publicly traded company on the basis of such MNPI, and (iii) specifies our blackout periods (and who is subject to such periods), our pre-clearance procedures (and who is subject to such procedures) and requirements regarding pre-approved trading plans