Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-015715
Chunk: 38

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 424B5
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 form of one or more global notes (the “ Global Notes ”) in definitive, fully registered, book-entry form. The Global Notes will be delivered to the Trustee, as custodian for the DTC, and registered in the name of DTC or the nominee of DTC.

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Except as described below, the Global Notes may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to another nominee of DTC or to a successor of DTC or its nominee. Beneficial interests in the Global Notes may not be exchanged for Notes in registered certificated form (“ Certificated Notes ”) except in the limited circumstances described below. See “— Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes .” Except in the limited circumstances described below, owners of beneficial interests in the Global Notes will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Certificated Notes.

#### DTC, Clearstream and Euroclear
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Beneficial interests in the Global Notes will be represented through book-entry accounts of financial institutions acting on behalf of beneficial owners as direct and indirect participants in DTC. Investors may hold interests in the Global Notes through either DTC (in the United States), Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, Luxembourg (“ Clearstream ”) or Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System (“ Euroclear ”) in Europe, either directly if they are participants in such systems or indirectly through organizations that are participants in such systems. Clearstream and Euroclear will hold interests on behalf of their participants through customers’ securities accounts in Clearstream’s and Euroclear’s names on the books of their United States depositaries, which in turn will hold such interests in customers’ securities accounts in the United States depositaries’ names on the books of DTC.

DTC has advised as follows: DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized under New York Banking Law, a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC was created to hold securities of institutions that have accounts with DTC (“ participants ”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among its