Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000022
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 424B5
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 or the record date therefor to the New York Stock Exchange or any applicable self-regulatory organization. In addition, the Company is required to deliver to the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee an officers’ certificate stating that no default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Subject to receipt of the officers’ certificate, the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee is required to promptly forward such notice to each holder of record of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes.

Certain Limitations During an Optional Deferral Period

During an Optional Deferral Period, subject to the exceptions noted below, the Company shall not:

• declare or pay any dividend or make any distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock, or

• make any payment of interest on, principal of or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the Company which rank equally with or junior to the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes.

None of the foregoing, however, shall restrict:

• any of the actions described in the preceding sentence resulting from any reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock;

• the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged;

• dividends, payments or distributions payable in shares of capital stock;

• redemptions, purchases or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock in connection with any employment contract, incentive plan, benefit plan or other similar arrangement of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stock purchase plan, including, without limitation, the Southern Investment Plan;

• any declaration of a dividend in connection with implementation of any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any such plan, or the redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any such rights pursuant thereto; or

• settling conversion of any convertible notes that rank equally with the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes.

#### Optional Redemption
At any time and from time to time (i) on any day in the period commencing on the date falling 90 days prior to the first Interest Reset Date and ending on and including the first Interest Reset Date and (ii) after