Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-069429
Chunk: 44

Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: 424B5
Chunk 44
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 their various business activities, the underwriters and their affiliates may make or hold a broad
array of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities) and financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such investment and securities
activities may involve securities and/or instruments of the issuer or its affiliates. If any of the underwriters or their affiliates has a lending relationship with us, certain of those underwriters or their affiliates routinely hedge, and certain
other of those underwriters or their affiliates may hedge, their credit exposure to us consistent with their customary risk management policies. Typically, such underwriters and their affiliates would hedge such exposure by entering into
transactions which consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our securities, including potentially the notes offered hereby. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely affect
future trading prices of the notes offered hereby.

We expect that delivery of the notes will be made against payment therefor on or
about , 2024, which is the Tokyo business day following the date of this prospectus supplement (such settlement cycle being referred to as “T+ ”). Under Rule 15c6-1 under the Exchange Act, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in one business day unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to
trade the notes on any date prior to the business day before delivery

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hereunder will be required, by virtue of the fact that the notes initially will settle in T+ , to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the notes who wish to trade the notes prior to the business day before their date of delivery hereunder should consult their own advisors. Conflicts of Interest We own more than 10% of the outstanding common stock of Bank of America Corporation, the parent company of BofA Securities, Inc. and an affiliate of Merrill Lynch International. Accordingly, this offering is being made in compliance with the requirements of Rule 5121 of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Because the notes to be offered will be rated investment grade, pursuant to Rule 5121, the appointment of a qualified independent underwriter is not necessary. BofA Securities, Inc. will not confirm sales of the notes to any account over which it exercises discretionary authority without the prior written approval of the customer. Offering Restrictions Canada The notes may be sold only