Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001104659-25-014808
Chunk: 25

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: S-3ASR
Chunk 25
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 such opinion of counsel must be based upon a ruling to such effect received by the applicable issuer or the applicable guarantor from or published by the United States Internal Revenue Service or a change in applicable U.S. federal income tax law to such effect. The applicable issuer or the applicable guarantor is required to deliver to the trustee an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel stating that all conditions precedent provided for in the indenture with respect to the defeasance have been complied with.

#### Subordination
Certain provisions of the indenture relating to the subordination of the subordinated debt securities and guarantees are summarized below. The extent to which a particular series of subordinated debt securities or the guarantees thereof are subordinated to other indebtedness of an issuer or guarantor will be set forth

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in the prospectus supplement for that series and the indenture may be modified by a supplemental indenture to reflect those subordination provisions. The particular terms of subordination of an issue of subordinated debt securities or guarantees may supersede the general provisions of the indenture summarized below.

Upon any distribution to the applicable issuer or guarantor’s creditors in a liquidation, dissolution or reorganization, payment of the principal of, premium, if any, on and interest, if any, on the subordinated debt securities or guarantees will be subordinated to the extent provided in the indenture in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all senior indebtedness, but the applicable issuer or guarantor’s obligation to make payment of the principal of and premium, if any, on and interest, if any, in respect of the subordinated debt securities or guarantees will not otherwise be affected. Except as provided in a prospectus supplement and the related authorizing resolution and/or supplemental indenture, if any, no payment of principal or interest may be made on the subordinated debt securities or guarantees at any time if a default on senior indebtedness exists that permits the holders of such senior indebtedness to accelerate its maturity and the default is the subject of judicial proceedings or we have received notice of such default. The authorizing resolution and/or supplemental indenture may also provide that subordinated debt securities or guarantees issued thereunder are subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of future senior subordinated debt securities, if any. After all senior indebtedness is paid in full and until the subordinated debt securities are paid in full, Holders of the subordinated debt securities or guarantees will be sub