Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-014554
Chunk: 29

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 29
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 with respect to that series of Notes;

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the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes of that series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such event of default in its own name as Trustee under the indenture;

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such holders or holders making the request have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

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the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and

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during that 60-day period, the holders of a majority in principal amount of that series of Notes do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request.

Holders of Notes, however, are entitled at any time to bring a lawsuit for the payment of principal and interest due on their Notes on or after its due date.

#### Modification of the Indenture
AbbVie and the Trustee may modify the indenture or any supplemental indenture without the consent of the holders of the Notes for one or more of the following purposes:

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to evidence the succession of another Person to AbbVie and the assumption by any such successor of the obligations of AbbVie in the indenture or any supplemental indenture, and in the Notes;

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to add to the covenants of AbbVie for the benefit of the holders of all or any series of Notes or to surrender any right or power conferred upon AbbVie by the indenture or any supplemental indenture;

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to add any additional events of default for the benefit of holders of all or any series of Notes;

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to add to or change any of the provisions of the indenture or any supplemental indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of debt securities in certain other forms;

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to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of the indenture or any supplemental indenture in respect of one or more series of Notes, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (i) shall neither (A) apply to any Note of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture affecting such modification and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (B) modify the rights of the holder of any such Note with respect to such provision or (ii) shall become effective only when there is no such Note outstanding;

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to secure the Notes pursuant to the requirements of the indenture or the requirements of any