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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 each place of payment. No service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but we or the security registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than as set forth in the indenture).

Neither AbbVie nor the security registrar will be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note:

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during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes of that series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing; or

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so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

#### Book-Entry System
We will issue the Notes initially in the 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
The information in this section is provided solely as a matter of convenience and we take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

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