Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-014554
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Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 424B5
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 Optional Redemption .” Although the Notes contain provisions designed to compensate you for the lost value of your Notes if the Issuer redeems some or all of the Notes prior to maturity, they are only an approximation of this lost value and may not adequately compensate you. Furthermore, depending on prevailing interest rates at the time of any such redemption, you may not be able to reinvest the redemption proceeds in a comparable security at an interest rate as high as the interest rate of the Notes being redeemed or at an interest rate that would otherwise compensate you for any lost value as a result of any redemption of Notes.

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### USE OF PROCEEDS
The Issuer expects the net proceeds to it from this offering will be approximately $ billion (after deducting underwriting discounts and its estimated offering expenses). The Issuer intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, together with cash on hand, (a) to repurchase, redeem, satisfy and discharge, defease, make a tender offer for, or otherwise repay at maturity (i) all of its 3.600% senior notes due 2025, which have a stated maturity date of May 14, 2025, in an aggregate outstanding principal amount of $3.750 billion, and/or (ii) all of its 3.800% senior notes due 2025, which have a stated maturity date of March 15, 2025, in an aggregate outstanding principal amount of $2.890 billion, and/or (iii) all of the 3.800% senior notes due 2025 of Allergan Funding SCS (formerly known as Actavis Funding SCS), which have a stated maturity date of March 15, 2025, in an aggregate principal amount of $130.225 million, and, in each case, and to pay any premium and accrued and unpaid interest in respect thereof, and/or (b) for general corporate purposes.

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CAPITALIZATION The following table sets forth our capitalization as of December 31, 2024, on an actual basis and as adjusted to give effect to the issuance and sale of the Notes and the application of the estimated net proceeds therefrom (together with cash on hand), including the repurchase, redemption or repayment of the 3.600% senior notes due 2025 and/or the 3.800% senior