Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0000092122-25-000092
Chunk: 163

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 424B2
Chunk 163
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 Corporate Units) should consult with its own counsel with respect to the potential applicability of ERISA, the Code or Similar Law, the potential consequences in its specific circumstances, and whether any exemption or exemptions would be applicable and determine on its own whether all conditions of such exemption or exemptions have been satisfied. In addition, the investing fiduciary should determine whether the investment in the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) satisfies ERISA’s fiduciary standards and other requirements under ERISA, the Code or Similar Law. The investing fiduciary should also determine on its own that none of the Company, the underwriters nor any of their affiliates exercised any discretionary authority or discretionary control respecting the purchase, holding and disposition of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) and neither the Company nor any of its affiliates provided advice on the decision to purchase, hold or dispose of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units).

Accordingly, by its purchase or holding of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units), each purchaser or holder of the Corporate Units will be deemed to have represented and warranted that either:

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• the purchaser or holder is not purchasing the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) on behalf of, or with the assets of, any Plan; or

• (1) the Plan will receive no less, and pay no more, than “adequate consideration” (within the meaning of Section 408(b)(17) of ERISA and Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code) in connection with the purchase, holding and disposition of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units), (2) the purchase, holding and disposition of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or a violation of Similar Law, (3) none of the Company, the underwriters nor any of their affiliates exercised any discretionary authority or discretionary control respecting the purchase, holding and disposition of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) and none of the Company, the underwriters nor any of their affiliates provided investment recommendations or advice on the decision to purchase, hold or dispose of the Corporate Units (and the securities underlying the Corporate Units) and (4) the purchaser or holder hereby directs the Company, the purchase contract agent, the collateral agent and the remarketing agents to