EX-4.2 2 tm2019527d2_ex4-2.htm EXHIBIT 4.2

Exhibit 4.2

 

EXECUTION VERSION

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 8

 

$311,602,000 3.375% Senior Notes due 2020

$431,559,000 4.875% Senior Notes due 2021

$1,175,701,000 5.000% Senior Notes due 2021

$2,627,036,000 3.450% Senior Notes due 2022

$1,462,358,000 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022

$244,575,000 2.800% Senior Notes due 2023

$945,394,000 3.850% Senior Notes due 2024

$2,890,467,000 3.800% Senior Notes due 2025

$1,681,354,000 4.550% Senior Notes due 2035

$389,217,000 4.625% Senior Notes due 2042

$1,008,583,000 4.850% Senior Notes due 2044

$827,096,000 4.750% Senior Notes due 2045

 

THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), among ABBVIE INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY:

 

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (as heretofore supplemented or amended, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of Securities (as defined in the Indenture);

 

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into a definitive transaction agreement, dated as of June 25, 2019, by and among the Company, Allergan plc, an Irish public limited company (“Allergan”), and Venice Subsidiary LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Acquiror Sub”), as amended from time to time, which provides, among other things, that on the terms and subject to conditions set forth therein, Acquiror Sub will acquire Allergan, with Allergan surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Acquisition”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the Acquisition, the Company offered to exchange (the “Exchange Offers”) any and all outstanding notes of certain series issued by Allergan Finance, LLC, Allergan, Inc., Allergan Sales, LLC and Allergan Funding SCS (the “Allergan Notes”) for notes issued by the Company pursuant to an Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of October 25, 2019 (as amended, the “Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement”);

 

WHEREAS, Article Nine of the Indenture provides for various matters with respect to any series of Securities issued under the Indenture to be established in an indenture supplemental to the Indenture;

 

 

 

 

WHEREAS, Section 9.1(7) of the Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Indenture to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1 of the Indenture;

 

WHEREAS, Section 9.1 of the Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may modify certain terms of the Indenture and provide certain additional provisions with respect to any series of Securities to be issued under the Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, all the conditions and requirements necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture, when duly executed and delivered, a valid and binding agreement in accordance with its terms and for the purposes herein expressed, have been performed and fulfilled.

 

NOW THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

For and in consideration of the premises and the issuance of the series of Securities provided for herein, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders of the Securities of each such series as follows:

 

Article 1
RELATION TO INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

 

Section 1.1.            Relation to Indenture.  This Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.

 

Section 1.2.            Definitions.  For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, the following terms shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section.

 

2020 Notes” means the 3.375% Senior Notes due 2020.

 

2023 Notes” means the 2.800% Senior Notes due 2023.

 

2024 Notes” means the 3.850% Senior Notes due 2024.

 

2025 Notes” means the 3.800% Senior Notes due 2025.

 

2035 Notes” means the 4.550% Senior Notes due 2035.

 

2042 Notes” means the 4.625% Senior Notes due 2042.

 

2044 Notes” means the 4.850% Senior Notes due 2044.

 

2045 Notes” means the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2045.

 

Applicable Proceduresmeans, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Regulation S Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depository for such Global Note, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

 

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking S.A.

 

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Dealer Managers” means Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BNP Paribas Securities Corp., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.

 

December 2021 Notes” means the 5.000% Senior Notes due 2021.

 

Definitive Note” means a certificated Note that does not include the Global Notes Legend.

 

Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

 

Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System.

 

Exchange Noteshas the meaning specified in the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

February 2021 Notes” means the 4.875% Senior Notes due 2021.

 

Global Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in Exhibits A1 through A12 to this Supplemental Indenture.

 

Initial Notes” means the Notes issued pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture on the date hereof.

 

March 2022 Notes” means the 3.450% Senior Notes due 2022.

 

Notes” means, collectively, the 2020 Notes, the February 2021 Notes, the December 2021 Notes, the March 2022 Notes, the October 2022 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2035 Notes, the 2042 Notes, the 2044 Notes and the 2045 Notes.

 

Notes Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Note (as appointed by the Depository) or any successor person thereto, who will initially be the Trustee.

 

October 2022 Notes” means the 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022.

 

Participant” means members of, or participants in, the Depository.

 

QIB” means qualified institutional buyer as specified in Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Notes, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for their Initial Notes, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes in an exchange registered under the Securities Act.

 

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2020, by and among the Company and the Dealer Managers.

 

Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

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Regulation S Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of Allergan Notes in an offshore transaction in reliance on Regulation S.

 

Restricted Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.5(e)(i) hereof.

 

Restricted Period” means, with respect to any Notes, the period that is 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (i) the day on which such Notes are first offered to Persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S and (ii) the date of original issuance with respect to such Notes.

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Rule 144A Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of Allergan Notes reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.

 

Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Transfer Restricted Note” means any Note that bears or is required to bear a Restricted Notes Legend.

 

Section 1.3.            Rules of Construction.  For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture:

 

(a)            capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings specified in the Indenture;

 

(b)            all references herein to Articles and Sections, unless otherwise specified, refer to the corresponding Articles and Sections of this Supplemental Indenture;

 

(c)            the terms “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture; and

 

(d)            in the event of a conflict with the definition of terms in the Indenture, the definitions in this Supplemental Indenture shall control.

 

Article 2
THE SECURITIES

 

Section 2.1.            Title of the Notes.  There shall be (i) a series of Securities designated the 3.375% Senior Notes due 2020, (ii) a series of Securities designated the 4.875% Senior Notes due 2021, (iii) a series of Securities designated the 5.000% Senior Notes due 2021, (iv) a series of Securities designated the 3.450% Senior Notes due 2022, (v) a series of Securities designated the 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022, (vi) a series of Securities designated the 2.800% Senior Notes due 2023, (vii) a series of Securities designated the 3.850% Senior Notes due 2024, (viii) a series of Securities designated the 3.800% Senior Notes due 2025, (ix) a series of Securities designated the 4.550% Senior Notes due 2035, (x) a series of Securities designated the 4.625% Senior Notes due 2042, (xi) a series of Securities designated the 4.850% Senior Notes due 2044 and (xii) a series of Securities designated the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2045.

 

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Section 2.2.            Initial Principal Amount. The 2020 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $311,602,000. The February 2021 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $431,559,000. The December 2021 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,175,701,000. The March 2022 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $2,627,036,000. The October 2022 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,462,358,000. The 2023 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $244,575,000. The 2024 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $945,394,000. The 2025 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $2,890,467,000. The 2035 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,681,354,000. The 2042 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $389,217,000. The 2044 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $1,008,583,000. The 2045 Notes will be initially issued in an aggregate principal amount of $827,096,000.

 

Section 2.3.            [Reserved].

 

Section 2.4.            Form and Dating.

 

(a)            General.  The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the forms set forth in the corresponding Exhibits A1-A12 attached hereto (other than, (i) with respect to any additional Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to issue date, issue price and first Interest Payment Date of such additional Notes, and (ii) with respect to any Exchange Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to legends, transfer restrictions, CUSIP/ISIN numbers and other changes customary for registered notes). The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Notes of each series and any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued under the Indenture, together with any Exchange Notes issued with respect to the Notes of such series in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, will be treated as a single series or class for all purposes under the Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and redemptions; provided that, if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the existing Notes for Federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes will have a separate CUSIP number.

 

i.The Notes shall initially be issued only (A) to persons reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States, to persons other than “U.S. persons” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, in compliance with Regulation S. Notes may thereafter be transferred to, among others, purchasers reasonably believed to be QIBs, and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S, subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein. Notes initially issued pursuant to Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Note”) and Notes initially issued pursuant to Regulation S shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Note”), in each case without interest coupons and with the Global Notes Legend and the applicable Restricted Notes Legend set forth in Section 2.5(e)(i) hereof, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with the Notes Custodian and registered in the name of the Notes Custodian or a nominee of the Depository, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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ii.Beneficial interests in Regulation S Global Notes may be exchanged for interests in Rule 144A Global Notes of the same series if (1) such exchange occurs in connection with a transfer of Notes in compliance with Rule 144A and (2) the transferor of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of the Form of Exchange Certificate attached to the applicable Exhibit hereto) to the effect that the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note is being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

iii.Beneficial interests in Rule 144A Global Notes may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note only if the transferor first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of Exhibit B hereto) to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S (if applicable).

 

iv.The Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes are collectively referred to herein as “Global Notes.”

 

The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture, and the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

 

The Company hereby designates The Depository Trust Company as the initial Depository for the Global Notes.

 

(b)            Global Notes.  The Notes will be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes in definitive, fully registered, book-entry form. The Global Notes will be delivered to the Notes Custodian and registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of such Depository. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depository or its nominee as hereinafter provided.

 

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(c)            Book-Entry Provisions.  This Section 2.4(c) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depository. The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.4(c) and pursuant to an order of the Company, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (A) shall be registered in the name of the Depository for such Global Note or Global Notes or the nominee of such Depository and (B) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depository or pursuant to such Depository’s instructions or held by the Trustee as Notes Custodian.

 

(d)            Payment. Payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on a Global Note registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee will be payable to the Depository in its capacity as the registered holder under the Indenture. Under the terms of the Indenture, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the persons in whose names the Notes, including the Global Notes, are registered as the owners of the Notes for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not the Notes be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository and its Participants, the operation of customary practices of such Depository governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

 

(e)            Definitive Notes.  Except as provided in Section 2.6, owners of a beneficial interest in the Global Notes will not have Notes registered in their names, will not receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes and will not be considered the registered owners or “holders” thereof under the Indenture for any purpose.

 

Section 2.5.            Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)            Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes.  When Definitive Notes are presented to the Security Registrar with a request:

 

(i)            to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or

 

(ii)           to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations, the Security Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

 

(A)            shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing; and

 

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(B)            are accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

 

(x)            certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such definitive Note is being transferred (A) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act; and

 

(y)            (1) if such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Security Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Note); or (2) if such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company, a certification to that effect (in the form satisfactory to the Trustee).

 

(b)            Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note.  A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirement set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, together with (i) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such definitive Note is being transferred (A) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and (ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Notes Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depository account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the Notes Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depository and the Notes Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If no Global Notes are then outstanding and the Global Note has not been previously exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.6, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of a Company Order, a new Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

 

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(c)            Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes.

 

(i)            The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depository, in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depository therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depository to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note or another Global Note and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred. Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Regulation S Global Note, whether before or after the expiration of the Restricted Period, shall be made only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification from the transferor to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S or (if available) Rule 144 under the Securities Act and that, if such transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, the interest transferred shall be held immediately thereafter through Euroclear or Clearstream.

 

(ii)           If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

 

(iii)          Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.4), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository.

 

(iv)          In the event that a Global Note is exchanged for Notes in definitive form prior to the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement with respect to such Notes, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this section (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144, Rule 144A, Regulation S or such other applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

 

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(d)            Restrictions on Transfer of Regulation S Global Notes.

 

(i)            Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be held through Euroclear or Clearstream. During the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and only (A) to the Company, (B) so long as such security is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom the selling holder reasonably believes is a QIB that purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (C) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S, (D) pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act or (E) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Global Note may not be made to a U.S. person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person. Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Rule 144A Global Note shall be made only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Note to the effect that such transfer is being made to a person whom the transferor reasonably believes is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. Such written certification shall no longer be required after the expiration of the Restricted Period. In the case of a transfer of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note for an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note, the transferee must, at the request of the Company, deliver an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company stating that the proposed transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

(ii)           Upon the expiration of the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of the Indenture.

 

(e)            Legends.

 

(i)            Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v), each Note certificate evidencing the Global Notes and the Definitive Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only):

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

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NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to QIBs pursuant to Rule 144A shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.

 

Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to non-U.S. persons outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

 

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

Each Global Note shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

 

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

 

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Each Note in definitive form shall bear the following additional legend:

 

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

(ii)           Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a definitive Note, the Security Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a definitive Note that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Security Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Note).

 

(iii)          After a transfer of any Initial Notes during the period of the effectiveness of a shelf registration statement with respect to such Initial Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Notes Legend on such Initial Notes shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

 

(iv)          Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Notes are offered Exchange Notes in exchange for their Initial Notes, all requirements pertaining to Initial Notes that Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Notes in global form without the Restricted Notes Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes in such Registered Exchange Offer.

 

(v)           Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Restricted Period of any Initial Note acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Note bear the Restricted Notes Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Note be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

 

(f)            By its acceptance of any Note bearing any legend in Section 2.5(e)(i) hereof, each Holder of such Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this Supplemental Indenture and in such legend in Section 2.5(e)(i) hereof and agrees that it shall transfer such Note only as provided in this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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(g)            Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Depository to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Notes Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Notes Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

 

(h)            Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes.

 

(i)            To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Security Registrar’s request.

 

(ii)           No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

(i)            Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

(j)            The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as Security Registrar for the Notes. Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required to register the transfer of or exchange Notes of any series (i) 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 under Section 11.3 of the Indenture and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

(k)            All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture shall evidence the same Debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

 

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(l)            No Obligation of the Trustee.

 

(i)            The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in, the Depository or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depository or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depository) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depository or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depository subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depository with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.

 

(ii)            The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Supplemental Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depository participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Supplemental Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

Section 2.6.            Definitive Notes.

 

(a)            A Global Note deposited with the Depository or with the Trustee as Notes Custodian pursuant to Section 2.4 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.5 and (i) the Depository (A) notifies the Company that the Depository is no longer willing or able to act as a depositary or clearing system for the Notes or (B) ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and in either event, a successor depositary or clearing system is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or cessation, (ii) upon the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default and the Depository notifies the Trustee of its decision to exchange the Global Note for Definitive Notes, or (iii) the Company determines not to have the Notes represented by a Global Note.

 

(b)            Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be surrendered by the Depository to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Any portion of a Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section 2.6 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $2,000 of principal amount and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and registered in such names as requested by or on behalf of the Depository (in accordance with its customary procedures).

 

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(c)            The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Participants and Persons that may hold interests through Participants, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under the Indenture or the Notes.

 

(d)            In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.6(a)(i), (ii) or (iii), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons.

 

Article 3
AMENDMENTS TO THE BASE INDENTURE

 

Section 3.1.            Amendment to Section 4.1 of the Indenture. Solely as it relates to the Notes, Section 4.1 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing subsection (1)(B) with the following:

 

(B)            all of the Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

 

(i)            have become due and payable,

 

(ii)           will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

 

(iii)          if redeemable at the Company’s option, are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,

 

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee funds in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of such series to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable), or to their Stated Maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be (provided that in connection with any discharge relating to any redemption that requires the payment of a premium, the amount deposited shall be sufficient for purposes of the Indenture to the extent that an amount is deposited with the Trustee equal to the premium calculated as of the date of the notice of redemption, with any deficit as of the Redemption Date only required to be deposited with the Trustee on or prior to the Redemption Date), together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment thereof at Maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

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Section 3.2.            Amendment to Section 5.1 to the Indenture. Solely as it relates to the Notes, Section 5.1 of the Indenture shall be amended by:

 

(a) replacing subsection (4) with the following: “default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of series of Securities other than that series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after the giving of written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder (provided that such notice may not be given with respect to any action taken, and reported publicly or to holders of the Securities more than two years prior to such notice);” and

 

(b)  adding the following paragraph at the end of Section 5.1: “Any time period in this Indenture to cure any actual or alleged default or Event of Default may be extended or stayed by a court of competent jurisdiction.”

 

Section 3.3.            Amendment to Section 11.2 to the Indenture. Solely as it relates to the March 2022 Notes, the October 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2035 Notes, the 2042 Notes, the 2044 Notes and the 2045 Notes, Section 11.2 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing “45 days” with “30 days.”

 

Section 3.4.            Amendment to Section 11.3 to the Indenture. Solely as it relates to the March 2022 Notes, the October 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2035 Notes, the 2042 Notes, the 2044 Notes and the 2045 Notes, Section 11.3 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing “45 days” with “30 days” in each instance it appears.

 

Section 3.5.            Amendment to Section 11.4 to the Indenture.

 

(a)            Solely as it relates to the March 2022 Notes, the October 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2025 Notes, the 2035 Notes, the 2042 Notes, the 2044 Notes and the 2045 Notes, Section 11.4 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing the first sentence with the following: “Notice of redemption shall be given electronically or by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register, or otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date.”

 

(b)            Solely as it relates to the 2020 Notes, the February 2021 Notes, the December 2021 Notes and the 2023 Notes, Section 11.4 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing the first sentence with the following: “Notice of redemption shall be given electronically or by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register, or otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date.”

 

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(c)            Solely as it relates to the Notes, Section 11.4 of the Indenture shall be amended by adding the following sentence to the end of Section 11.4: “Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two business days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder of Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.”

 

Section 3.6.            Amendment to Section 13.4 of the Indenture. Solely as it relates to the Notes, Section 13.4 of the Indenture shall be amended by replacing subsections (5) and (6) with the following:

 

(5)In the case of an election under Section 13.2, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax in the same manner as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.

 

(6)In the case of an election under Section 13.3, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax in the same manner as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.

 

Article 4
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 4.1.            Ratification.  The Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed.

 

Section 4.2.            Counterparts.  This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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Section 4.3.            Governing Law.  THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

Section 4.4.            Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.  If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Supplemental Indenture, the latter provision shall control.  If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Supplemental Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

 

Section 4.5.            The Trustee.  The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Securities.

 

[signature pages follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture No. 8 to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:

/s/ Scott T. Reents

    Name: Scott T. Reents
    Title:

Vice President, Tax and Treasury

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
     
  By:

/s/ Linda Garcia

    Name:

Linda Garcia

    Title:

Vice President

 

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 8]

 

 

 

 

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(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

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ABBVIE INC.

 

3.375% Senior Notes due 2020

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on September 15, 2020 (the “Maturity Date”), and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan, Inc. (“Allergan”) on the 3.375% Senior Notes due 2020 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 3.375% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 or September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1 Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCC1
  Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QAW6
     
2 Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCC12
  Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QAW60

 

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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:
    Name:
    Title:

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
  as Trustee
   
  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Maturity Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

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The Company will notify the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

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Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

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The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

A-1-10

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-1-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-1-12

 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨    to the Company; or

 

(2)¨    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3) ¨    inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨    in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:_________________________  Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-1-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor 

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 3.375% Senior Notes due 2020

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

    [Insert Name of Transferor]
     
    By:  
      Name:
      Title:
     
Dated:_____________________________________  

 

A-1-15

 

 

EXHIBIT A2

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

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ABBVIE INC.

 

4.875% Senior Notes due 2021

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on February 15, 2021, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Sales, LLC (“Allergan”) on the 4.875% Senior Notes due 2021 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on August 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.875% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the February 1 and August 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCD9
  Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QAX4

 

2Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCD94
  Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QAX44

 

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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
     
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

A-2-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

   
  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Trustee
   
  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-2-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium. The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

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The Company will notify the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Applicable Premium” means, on the Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the excess, if any, of: (a) the present value at the Redemption Date of all scheduled interest and principal payments due on the Securities of this series to be redeemed (excluding accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such Redemption Date plus 50 basis points; over (b) the principal amount of such Securities of this series being redeemed.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means November 17, 2020.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

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Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

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No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-2-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-2-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

A-2-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:____________________ Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-2-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 4.875% Senior Notes due 2021

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]

 

By:

Name:

Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

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EXHIBIT A3

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

 A-3-1 

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

 A-3-2 

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

5.000% Senior Notes due 2021

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on December 15, 2021, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Sales, LLC (“Allergan”) on the 5.000% Senior Notes due 2021 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 5.000% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the June 1 and December 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCE7
 Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QAY2

 

2Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCE77
 Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QAY27

 

 A-3-3 

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

 A-3-4 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:                 

 

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

 A-3-5 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:                 

 

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Trustee
   
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

 A-3-6 

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed plus the Applicable Premium. The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

 A-3-7 

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Applicable Premium” means, on the Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the excess, if any, of: (a) the present value at the Redemption Date of all scheduled interest and principal payments due on the Securities of this series to be redeemed (excluding accrued but unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such Redemption Date plus 50 basis points; over (b) the principal amount of such Securities of this series being redeemed.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means September 16, 2021.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

 A-3-8 

 

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

 A-3-9 

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

 A-3-10 

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

 A-3-11 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

Date:  
   
Your Signature*:  
   
By:  
   
Name:  
   
Title:  

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 A-3-12 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

 A-3-13 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

Dated:____________________Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

 A-3-14 

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 5.000% Senior Notes due 2021

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

 A-3-15 

 

 

EXHIBIT A4

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

 A-4-1 

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

 A-4-2 

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

3.450% Senior Notes due 2022

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on March 15, 2022, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 3.450% Senior Notes due 2022 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 3.450% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 and September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day) ; provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCF4
 Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QAZ9

 

2Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCF43
 Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QAZ91

 

 A-4-3 

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

 A-4-4 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:           

 

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

 A-4-5 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:                

 

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Trustee
   
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

 A-4-6 

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

 A-4-7 

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means January 15, 2022.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

 A-4-8 

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

 A-4-9 

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

 A-4-10 

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

 A-4-11 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

Date:  
   
Your Signature*:  
   
By:  
   
Name:  
   
Title:  

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 A-4-12 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

 A-4-13 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

Dated:____________________Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

 A-4-14 

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 3.450% Senior Notes due 2022

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

 A-4-15 

 

 

EXHIBIT A5

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

A-5-1

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-5-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

3.250% Senior Notes due 2022

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on October 1, 2022, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Finance, LLC (“Allergan”) on the 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 3.250% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 15 and September 15, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCG2
Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBA3

 

2Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCG26
Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBA32

 

A-5-3

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-5-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:
    Name:
    Title:

 

A-5-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
   
  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-5-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-5-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means July 1, 2022.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

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Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

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No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-5-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:
 
I or we assign and transfer this Security to
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
 
 
 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)
 
and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

Date:
 
Your Signature*:
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-5-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

  ____________________________________
  Signature

 

A-5-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:____________________ Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-5-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 3.250% Senior Notes due 2022

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

A-5-15

 

 

EXHIBIT A6

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-6-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

2.800% Senior Notes due 2023

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on March 15, 2023, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan, Inc. (“Allergan”) on the 2.800% Senior Notes due 2023 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 2.800% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 and September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCH0
Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBB1

 

2Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCH09
Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBB15

 

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Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:
    Name:
    Title:

 

A-6-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
   
  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-6-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-6-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means December 15, 2022.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

A-6-8

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

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No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

A-6-10

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-6-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:
 
I or we assign and transfer this Security to
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
 
 
 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)
 
and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

Date:
 
Your Signature*:
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-6-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

  ____________________________________
  Signature

 

A-6-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:____________________ Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-6-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 2.800% Senior Notes due 2023

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

A-6-15

 

 

EXHIBIT A7

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

A-7-1

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-7-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

3.850% Senior Notes due 2024

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on June 15, 2024, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 3.850% Senior Notes due 2024 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 3.850% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the June 1 and December 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 

1    Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCJ6

      Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBC9

 

2    Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCJ64

      Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBC97

 

A-7-3

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-7-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

A-7-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
       as Trustee
   
  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-7-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-7-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means March 15, 2024.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

A-7-8

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

A-7-9

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *
 

A-7-10

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-7-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:
 
Your Signature*:
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 A-7-13 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

 A-7-14 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:______________________Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

 A-7-15 

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 3.850% Senior Notes due 2024

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
By:
  Name:
  Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

 A-7-16 

 

 

EXHIBIT A8

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

 A-8-1 

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

 A-8-2 

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

3.800% Senior Notes due 2025

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on March 15, 2025, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 3.800% Senior Notes due 2025 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 3.800% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 and September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

 
1  Rule 144A Note CUSIP:  00287YDC0
   Regulation S Note CUSIP:  U0029QBH8
       
2  Rule 144A Note ISIN:  US00287YDC03
   Regulation S Note ISIN:  USU0029QBH84

 

 A-8-3 

 

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

 A-8-4 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:
   
  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

 A-8-5 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

   
  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,as Trustee
   
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

 A-8-6 

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

 A-8-7 

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means December 15, 2024.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

 A-8-8 

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

 A-8-9 

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

 A-8-10 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

 A-8-11 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:
 
Your Signature*:
 
By:
 
Name:
 
Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 A-8-12 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

 A-8-13 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:____________________Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

 A-8-14 

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 3.800% Senior Notes due 2025

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
By:
  Name:
  Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

 A-8-15 

 

 

EXHIBIT A9

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

 A-9-1 

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

 A-9-2 

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

4.550% Senior Notes due 2035

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on March 15, 2035, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 4.550% Senior Notes due 2035 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.550% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 and September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

 A-9-3 

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

 

1 Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCK3  
  Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBD7  
       
2 Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCK38  
  Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBD70  

 

 A-9-4 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
By:
    Name:
    Title:

 

 A-9-5 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Trustee

 

  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

 A-9-6 

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

 A-9-7 

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means September 15, 2034.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

 A-9-8 

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

 A-9-9 

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

 A-9-10 

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

 A-9-11 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

 A-9-12 

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨    to the Company; or

 

(2)¨    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨    inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨    in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

  
 Signature

 

 A-9-13 

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:                                                     Notice:To be executed by an executive officer

 

 A-9-14 

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 4.550% Senior Notes due 2035

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

 [Insert Name of Transferor]
  
By:
  Name:
  Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

 A-9-15 

 

 

EXHIBIT A10

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

A-10-1

 

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-10-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

4.625% Senior Notes due 2042

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on October 1, 2042, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Finance, LLC (“Allergan”) on the 4.625% Senior Notes due 2042 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.625% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 15 and September 15, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

A-10-3

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

 

1 Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCL1  
Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBE5  
       
2 Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCL11  
Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBE53  

 

A-10-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

 

A-10-5

 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
    as Trustee

 

  By:
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-10-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-10-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means April 1, 2042.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

A-10-8

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

A-10-9

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

A-10-10

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-10-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint                                as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-10-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨ to the Company; or

 

(2)¨ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

  Signature

 

A-10-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:____________________Notice:To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-10-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 4.625% Senior Notes due 2042

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

 [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
By: 
  Name:
  Title:

 

Dated: _______________________

 

A-10-15

 

 

EXHIBIT A11

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

A-11-1

 

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-11-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

4.850% Senior Notes due 2044

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on June 15, 2044, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 4.850% Senior Notes due 2044 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.850% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the June 1 and December 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

 

1 Rule 144A Note CUSIP: 00287YCM9
  Regulation S Note CUSIP: U0029QBF2
     
2 Rule 144A Note ISIN: US00287YCM93
  Regulation S Note ISIN: USU0029QBF29

 

A-11-3

 

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-11-4

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
     
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

A-11-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
     as Trustee
     
  By:  
    Authorized Signatory

 

A-11-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-11-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means December 15, 2043.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

A-11-8

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

A-11-9

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *

 

A-11-10

 

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-11-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint_________________ as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

A-11-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨    to the Company; or

 

(2)¨    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨    inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨    in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

A-11-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:__________________________ Notice:To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-11-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 4.850% Senior Notes due 2044

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:
   
Dated: ________________________

 

A-11-15

 

 

EXHIBIT A12

 

(FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE)

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

 

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, TO ABBVIE INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH ABBVIE INC. OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ABBVIE INC. WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO ABBVIE INC. OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A ‘‘QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER’’ AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO ABBVIE INC.’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

A-12-1

 

 

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

 

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1) Applies to Global Notes only

 

(2) Applies to Rule 144A Notes only

 

(3) Applies to Regulation S Notes only

 

(4) Applies to Notes in definitive form only

 

A-12-2

 

 

ABBVIE INC.

 

4.750% Senior Notes due 2045

 

No. [●] $[●]

 

CUSIP No: [●]1

 

ISIN No: [●]2

 

ABBVIE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] Dollars ($[●]), or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Exchanges attached hereto, on March 15, 2045, and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for by Allergan Funding SCS (“Allergan”) on the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2045 issued by Allergan that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing on September 15, 2020 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), at the rate of 4.750% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest payments on this Security will include interest accrued to but excluding the Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 1 and September 1, as the case may be, preceding such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity of this Note shall be payable to the persons to whom principal amount shall be payable, subject to DTC’s applicable procedures. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

  

 

 

1       Rule 144A Note CUSIP:        00287YCN7

         Regulation S Note CUSIP:    U0029QBG0

 

2       Rule 144A Note ISIN:        US00287YCN76

         Regulation S Note ISIN:    USU0029QBG02

 

A-12-3

 

 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and any such interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in St. Paul, Minnesota, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by (1) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or (2) wire transfer as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to an account maintained by the Depository or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Definitive Note; provided further that in the case of a Definitive Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Regular Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Regular Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Security Register.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to herein by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

A-12-4

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

Dated:

 

  ABBVIE INC.
   
  By:  
    Name: 
    Title:

 

A-12-5

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

  U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
     as Trustee
   
  By:
   
    Authorized Signatory
   

 

A-12-6

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time (herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), and Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of May 14, 2020 (herein called the “Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture, Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities of this series and of the terms upon which the Securities of this series are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $[●].

 

Optional Redemption

 

At any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined below), the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option, in each case at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed; and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on the Securities of this series to be redeemed discounted to the Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the then current Treasury Rate plus 35 basis points.

 

The Company will pay accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

In addition, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem some or all of the Securities of this series at its option at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of Securities of this series being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If the Company has given notice as provided in the Indenture and funds for the redemption of any Securities of this series called for redemption have been made available on the Redemption Date in accordance with the Indenture, such Securities will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for redemption. Thereafter, the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of the redemption price.

 

The Company will give notice of any optional redemption, electronically or by mail, to Holders at their addresses, as shown in the Security Register for such Securities, or as otherwise in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. The notice of redemption will specify, among other items, the Redemption Date, redemption price, the principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and the place or places that payment will be made upon surrender of the Securities of this series to be redeemed. Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, and, at the Company’s discretion, the redemption date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied. The Company shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each holder of the Securities in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given.

 

A-12-7

 

 

The Company will notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (or such shorter period as is satisfactory to the Trustee) of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of this series to be redeemed and their Redemption Date. If less than all of the Securities of this series are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select, not more than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date, which Securities or the portion thereof, that are to be redeemed from the outstanding Securities of this series not previously redeemed by random lot.

 

Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Securities.

 

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) if the Company obtains four or more Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, the average of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

 

Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.

 

Par Call Date” means September 15, 2044.

 

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States government securities dealer in the United States of America.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and any of their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of them ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealers the Company selects.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

A-12-8

 

 

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (1) the rate per annum equal to the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; provided that, if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Securities of this series to be redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month; or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated and provided to the Trustee in writing on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.

 

Sinking Fund

 

The Securities of this series do not provide for a sinking fund.

 

Default

 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

Miscellaneous

 

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of this Security or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein. Sections 13.2 and 13.3 of the Indenture apply to the Securities of this series.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of any series, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

A-12-9

 

 

No reference herein to the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture or Supplemental Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company 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 any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 9.6 or 11.7 of the Indenture).

 

Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

All terms used in this Security that are not defined herein but which are defined in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture and Supplemental Indenture.

 

THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

This Security is a Book-Entry Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository.

 

*                                         *                                         *


A-12-10

 

 

SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES

 

The following exchanges, redemptions or purchases of a part of this Book-Entry Security have been made:

 

Date of
Exchange/
Redemption/
Repurchase
Amount of
decrease in
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security
Amount of
increase in
Principal Amount
of this Book-
Entry Security
Principal Amount
of this Book-Entry
Security following
such decrease (or
increase)
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee
         
         
         

 

A-12-11

 

 

ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Security, fill in the form below:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Security to

 

 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and irrevocably appoint _______________ as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Date:

 

Your Signature*:

 

By:

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Security.

 

*Signature Guaranteed:

 

*NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Security Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Security Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.


A-12-12

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)¨    to the Company; or

 

(2)¨    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

 

(3)¨    inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

 

(4)¨    in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

 

(5)¨    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

   
  Signature

 

A-12-13

 

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:______________________ Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-12-14

 

 

FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

 

AbbVie Inc.

1 North Waukegan Road

North Chicago, Illinois 60064

 

U.S. Bank National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

 

Re: 4.750% Senior Notes due 2045

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 8, 2012, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2015, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 12, 2016, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 17, 2016, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2018, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 26, 2019, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 21, 2019, the Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020, and the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 14, 2020 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), between AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

 

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

  [Insert Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:
   
Dated: _______________________

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE
DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH
TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

 

[Date]

 

Attention:

 

Re:

 

AbbVie Inc. (the “Company”)
[applicable series of Notes] (the “Securities”)

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

In connection with our proposed sale of $______________ aggregate principal amount of the Securities, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and, accordingly, we represent that:

 

(1)the offer of the Securities was not made to a person in the United States;

 

(2)either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

 

(3)no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S, as applicable;

 

(4)the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

 

(5)we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions applicable to the Securities.

 

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

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  Very truly yours,
   
  [Name of Transferor]
   
  By:  
   
  Authorized Signature

 

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