Company: CI
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001140361-25-033868
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Company: Cigna Group
Filing Date: 2025-09-04
Form: 424B5
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 consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person”(as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s voting stock; provided, however, that a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (A) we become a wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company and (B)(x) the holders of the voting stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s voting stock immediately prior to that transaction or (y) immediately following that transaction no “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the voting stock of such holding company. For purposes of this definition, “voting stock” of a person means capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. |

“ Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event. “ Fitch” means Fitch Ratings Inc. and any successor to its rating agency business. “ Investment Grade Rating” means a rating by Moody’s equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent under a successor rating category of Moody’s), a rating by S&P equal to or higher than BBB- (or the equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P), a rating by Fitch equal to or higher than BBB- (or the equivalent

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under any successor rating category of Fitch), and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any replacement rating agency or rating agencies selected by us under the circumstances permitting us to select a replacement rating agency and in the manner for selecting a replacement rating agency, in each case as set forth in the definition of “Rating Agencies.”

“ Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor to its rating agency business.

“ Rating Agencies ” means (1) Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; and (