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
Chunk 22
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 or replacements), as a whole or in part, of any Debt secured by any Mortgage referred to in the foregoing list, inclusive; provided that (i) such extension, renewal or replacement Mortgage shall be limited to all or a part of the same property, shares of stock or debt that secured the Mortgage extended, renewed or replaced (plus improvements on such property, and plus any property relating to a specific project, the completion of which is funded pursuant to clause (ii)(b) below), and (ii) the Debt secured by such Mortgage at such time is not increased (other than (a) by an amount equal to any related financing costs (including, but not limited to, the accrued interest and premium, if any, on the Debt being refinanced) and (b) where an additional principal amount of Debt is incurred to provide funds for the completion of a specific project that is subject to a Mortgage securing the Debt being extended, refinanced or renewed, by an amount equal to such additional principal amount).

#### Restrictions on Sales and Leasebacks
Neither AbbVie nor any Domestic Subsidiary may enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction unless either:

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AbbVie or such Domestic Subsidiary could incur Debt secured by a Mortgage under the restrictions described above under “Restrictions on Secured Debt” on the Principal Domestic Property to be leased back in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or

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AbbVie, within 180 days after the sale or transfer by AbbVie or by any such Domestic Subsidiary, applies to the retirement of AbbVie’s Funded Debt, an amount equal to the greater of (1) the net proceeds of the sale of the Principal Domestic Property sold and leased back pursuant to such arrangement or (2) the fair market value of the Principal Domestic Property so sold and leased back at the time of entering into such arrangements (as determined by any two of the following: the chairman of the board of AbbVie, its chief executive officer, an executive vice president, a senior vice president or a vice president, and the chief financial officer, the treasurer or an assistant treasurer), subject to credits for certain voluntary retirements of Funded Debt.

#### Certain Definitions
The following are the meanings of terms that are important in understanding the restrictive covenants of AbbVie:

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“Attributable Debt” means (except as otherwise provided in this paragraph), as to any