Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000088
Chunk: 117

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
Chunk 117
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 provisions under which the purchase contract agent may resign or be replaced. Such resignation or replacement will be effective upon the appointment of a successor.

In addition to serving as the purchase contract agent and collateral agent, as described below, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association will serve as the custodial agent and securities intermediary under the purchase contract and pledge agreement for each series of RSNs. The Company and certain of the Company’s affiliates maintain banking relationships with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association or its affiliates. U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association also serves as trustee under other indentures under which certain of the Company’s affiliates have issued securities. U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association and its affiliates have purchased, and are likely to purchase in the future, the Company’s securities and securities of the Company’s affiliates.

#### Information Concerning the Collateral Agent
U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (or its successor) will be the collateral agent. The collateral agent will act solely as the Company’s agent and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the holders of the Corporate Units and the Treasury Units except for the obligations owed by a pledgee of property to the owner thereof under the purchase contract and pledge agreement and applicable law.

The purchase contract and pledge agreement will contain provisions limiting the liability of the collateral agent. The purchase contract and pledge agreement also will contain provisions under which the collateral agent may resign or be replaced. Such resignation or replacement will be effective upon the appointment of a successor.

#### Miscellaneous
The purchase contract and pledge agreement will provide that the Company will pay all fees and expenses related to (1) the retention of the purchase contract agent, the collateral agent, the custodial agent and the securities intermediary and (2) any enforcement by the purchase contract agent of the rights of the holders of the Corporate Units and the Treasury Units. Holders who elect to substitute the related pledged securities, thereby creating Treasury Units or recreating Corporate Units, however, will be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in connection with such substitution, as well as for any commissions, fees or other expenses incurred in acquiring the pledged securities to be substituted. The Company and the purchase contract agent will not be responsible for any such fees or expenses. The purchase contract agent shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the purchase contract and pledge agreement at the request or direction of any of the holders pursuant to the purchase contract and pledge agreement, unless such holders shall