Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-014554
Chunk: 51

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 51
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 provided, and may in the future provide, a variety of these services to us and to persons and entities with relationships with us, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses.

As a result, certain of the underwriters or their respective affiliates may receive a portion of the net proceeds from this offering that may be used to redeem, satisfy and discharge or prepay, as the case may be, our indebtedness under existing or future debt agreements. A certain affiliate of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC serves as administrative agent, certain affiliates of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. serve as syndication agents, and BofA Securities, Inc. and certain affiliates of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC serve as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners under our Revolving Credit Facilities, and certain of the underwriters and their affiliates are lenders thereunder and may receive customary fees in connection therewith. An affiliate of BofA Securities, Inc. serves as administrative agent, and BofA Securities, Inc. serves as joint lead arranger and bookrunner, and an affiliate of BofA Securities, Inc. is a lender under the Term Loan Facility.

In addition, in the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates, officers, directors and employees may purchase, sell or hold a broad array of investments and actively traded securities, derivatives, loans, commodities, currencies, credit default swaps and other financial instruments for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such investment and trading activities may involve or relate to assets, securities and/or instruments of ours or our affiliates (directly, as collateral securing other obligations or otherwise) and/or persons and entities with relationships with us or our affiliates. Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates that have a lending relationship with us routinely hedge, and certain other underwriters or their affiliates may hedge, their credit exposure to us consistent with their customary risk management policies. Typically, such underwriters and their affiliates would hedge such exposure by entering into transactions which consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our securities, including potentially the Notes offered hereby. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely affect future trading prices of the Notes offered hereby. The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also communicate independent investment recommendations, market color or trading ideas and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such assets, securities or instruments and may at any time hold,