Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-003537
Chunk: 101

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 101
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 participants and, with respect to those shares of AbbVie common stock for which voting instructions are received, provide a voting tally to Empower Trust Company (the trustee of the AbbVie Savings Plan Trust) to vote the shares as directed by participants. The AbbVie Retirement Plans Investment Committee may use its own discretion with respect to those shares of AbbVie common stock for which no voting instructions are received. 86 | 2025 Proxy Statement

Appendix A Proposed Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of AbbVie Inc. The text of the proposed amendment is marked to reflect the proposed changes. AbbVie Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ Corporation”), does hereby certify: 1. Articles VIII and XI of AbbVie’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation are amended to read as follows: ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the By-laws of the Corporation (the “ By-laws”) may be altered, amended or repealed, in whole or in part, and new By-laws may be adopted, (i) by the affirmative vote of shares representing a majority of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors; provided, however, that any proposed alteration, amendment or repeal of, or the adoption of any By-law inconsistent with, Sections 2.2, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.10 or 3.11, Article VII or Article X of the By-laws (in each case, as in effect on the date hereof), or the alteration, amendment or repeal of, or the adoption of any provision inconsistent with this sentence, may only be made by the affirmative vote of shares representing not less than eighty percent (80%) of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors; and provided further, however, that in the case of any such stockholder action at a meeting of stockholders, notice of the proposed alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of the new By-law or By-laws must be contained in the notice of such meeting, or (ii) by action of the Board of Directors of the Corporation; provided, however, that the case of any such action at a meeting of the Board