Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-015715
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Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 424B5
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 the Notes. Except for the covenants described under “ Description of Notes — Certain Covenants of AbbVie ” and “ Description of Notes — Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets ,” there are no covenants or any other provisions in the indenture under which the Notes will be issued which may afford you protection in the event of a highly leveraged transaction, including one that may or may not result in a change of control of the Issuer.

There are currently no markets for the Notes, and active trading markets may not develop for the Notes.

The Notes will constitute new issues of securities for which there are no established public markets. The Issuer does not expect to have the Notes listed on a national securities exchange or to arrange for quotation on any automated dealer quotation systems. Certain of the underwriters have advised the Issuer that they expect to make a market for each series of the Notes as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. However, the underwriters are not obligated to make a market for any series of the Notes, and they may discontinue their market-making activities at any time without notice. In addition, the liquidity of the trading markets in the Notes and the market prices quoted for the Notes may be adversely affected by changes in the overall market for securities and by changes in AbbVie’s financial performance or prospects or changes in the financial performance or prospects of companies in AbbVie’s industry. Active trading markets for the Notes

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may not develop or be sustained and there can be no assurance as to the liquidity of any markets that do develop. You may not be able to sell your Notes at a particular time, and the price that you receive when you sell may not be favorable.

Neither the Issuer nor any of its subsidiaries has any property that has been determined to be a principal domestic property under the indenture governing the Notes.

The indenture governing the Notes includes covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of the Issuer and its subsidiaries to create or permit to exist mortgages with respect to their principal domestic properties and certain other assets and to enter into sale and leaseback transactions with respect to such principal domestic properties. However, as of the date of this prospectus supplement, neither the Issuer, nor any of its subsidiaries, has any property that constitutes a principal domestic property under the indenture governing the Notes.

The Issuer has broad discretion to determine that a property is not a principal domestic property and therefore not