Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000088
Chunk: 81

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
Chunk 81
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 the Corporate Unit holder’s obligation to purchase common stock under the purchase contract. In addition, proceeds from the portions of the Treasury portfolio described in the third and fifth bullets (if the optional remarketing occurs prior to September 15, 2028) or the fourth and sixth bullets (if the optional remarketing occurs on or after September 15, 2028), as applicable, which will equal the interest payments (assuming no reset of the interest rate) that would have been paid on September 15, 2028 (if the optional remarketing occurs prior to such date) and the purchase contract settlement date on each series of RSNs that were components of the Corporate Units at the time of remarketing, will be paid to the holders of the Corporate Units on such date or dates, as applicable.

If the Company elects to remarket the RSNs during any optional remarketing period and a successful remarketing has not occurred on or prior to the last day of the applicable optional remarketing period, the Company will cause a notice of the failed remarketing to be published no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the last date of the applicable optional remarketing period. This notice will be validly published by furnishing such information on a Current Report on Form 8-K or by making a timely release to any appropriate news agency, including Bloomberg Business News and the Dow Jones News Service. The Company will similarly cause a notice of a successful remarketing of the RSNs to

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be published no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the date of such successful remarketing.

On each business day during any optional remarketing period, the Company has the right in its sole and absolute discretion to determine whether or not an optional remarketing will be attempted. At any time and from time to time during an optional remarketing period prior to the announcement of a successful optional remarketing, the Company has the right to postpone any optional remarketing in its sole and absolute discretion.

#### Final Remarketing
Unless a termination event or a successful optional remarketing has previously occurred, the Company will remarket the RSNs during the ten business day period ending on, and including, December 12, 2028 (the third business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date). This period is referred to as the “final remarketing period,” the remarketing during this period