Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000002
Chunk: 34

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form: 424B5
Chunk 34
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 any of these activities at any time without notice.

In general, purchases of a security for the purpose of stabilization or to reduce a short position could cause the price of the security to be higher than it might be in the absence of such purchases. The imposition of a penalty bid might also have an effect on the price of a security to the extent that it were to discourage resales of the security.

Neither the Company nor any Underwriter makes any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes. In addition, neither the Company nor any Underwriter makes any representation that the Underwriters will engage in such transactions or that such transactions once commenced will not be discontinued without notice.

It is expected that delivery of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will be made, against payment for the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes, on or about January , 2025, which will be the business day following the pricing of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes. Under Rule 15c6-1 under the 1934 Act, purchases or sales of securities in the secondary market generally are required to settle within one business day (T+1), unless the parties to any such transactions expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes who wish to trade the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes on the date of this Prospectus Supplement or the next succeeding business day(s) will be required, because the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will settle within business days (T+ ), to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes who wish to trade on the date of this Prospectus Supplement or the next succeeding business day(s) should consult their own legal advisors.

In the ordinary course of business, the Underwriters and their respective affiliates have from time to time performed and may in the future perform various financial advisory, commercial banking, investment banking, sales and trading, investment research, principal investment, hedging, market making, asset leasing treasury services and other financial and non-financial activities and services for the Company and its affiliates, for which they received, or will continue to receive, customary fees or compensation.

In addition, in the ordinary course of their business activities, the Underwriters and their affiliates may make or hold a broad array