Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000002
Chunk: 31

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form: 424B5
Chunk 31
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 TAX DISCUSSION SET FORTH ABOVE IS INCLUDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ONLY AND MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE DEPENDING UPON A HOLDER’S PARTICULAR SITUATION. HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE PARTICULAR TAX CONSEQUENCES TO THEM OF THE ACQUISITION, OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF THE SERIES 2025A JUNIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES, INCLUDING THE TAX CONSEQUENCES UNDER STATE, LOCAL, FOREIGN AND OTHER TAX LAWS.

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#### UNDERWRITING (CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
Subject to the terms and conditions of an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), the Company has agreed to sell to each of the underwriters named below (the “Underwriters”) for whom BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”) and each of the Underwriters has severally, and not jointly, agreed to purchase from the Company the principal amount of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes set forth opposite its name below:

| Underwriters                |     | Principal Amount of Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes |
|:----------------------------|:----|:-----------------------------------------------------------|
| BofA Securities, Inc.       |     | $                                                          |
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC  |     |                                                            |
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC    |     |                                                            |
| RBC Capital Markets, LLC    |     |                                                            |
| Wells Fargo Securities, LLC |     |                                                            |
| Total                       |     | $                                                          |

The Underwriting Agreement provides that the obligations of the several Underwriters to pay for and accept delivery of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes are subject to, among other things, the approval of certain legal matters by their counsel and certain other conditions. In the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters have severally agreed, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, to purchase all of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes offered hereby, if any of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes are purchased. The offering of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes by the Underwriters is subject to receipt and acceptance of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes and subject to the Underwriters’ right to reject any order in whole or in