Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-286108
Chunk: 62

Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 62
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, the holders of at least 33% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of all series to which such default is applicable) (in each case, voting as a single class) may declare the principal amount payable under the indenture on those then outstanding debt securities of the series affected by the default due and payable. 8

Defeasance Our obligations with respect to the payment of the principal and interest on the debt securities will terminate if we irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited with the trustee as trust funds specifically held in trust for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the holders of the debt securities:

| • |     | cash, |

| • |     | U.S. government obligations, which through the scheduled payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in 
 accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, cash, or    |

| • |     | a combination of the foregoing, |

in each case sufficient to pay and discharge each installment of principal and interest on the debt securities. The discharge of the debt securities is subject to certain other conditions, including, without limitation,

| • |     | no event of default or event (including such deposit) which with notice or lapse of time would become an event of                                                                                                                
 default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (or, with respect to an event of bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of us, at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit), |

| • |     | we shall have delivered to the trustee an opinion of tax counsel to the effect that beneficial owners of the debt                    
 securities will not recognize gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance, |

| • |     | the debt securities, if they are then listed on any securities exchange, will not be delisted as a result of such 
 deposit, and                                                                                                      |

| • |     | such deposit shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or 
 instrument to which we are a party or otherwise bound.                                                           |

Modification and Waiver Modification of Indenture The indenture provides that we and the trustee may, without the consent of any holders of debt securities, enter into supplemental indentures for the purposes, among other things, of adding to our covenants, adding additional events of default and curing ambiguities or inconsistencies in