Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000088
Chunk: 124

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
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The entire principal amount of the Series 2025B RSNs will mature and become due and payable, together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, on December 15, 2030. The entire principal amount of the Series 2025C RSNs will mature and become due and payable, together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, on December 15, 2033. As described below under “—Put Option upon Failed Remarketing,” holders will have the right to require the Company to purchase their RSNs under certain circumstances. The Senior Note Indenture will not contain any financial covenants or restrict the Company from paying dividends, making investments, incurring indebtedness or repurchasing the Company’s securities. Except for the covenants described under “—Consolidation, Merger or Sale,” the Senior Note Indenture does not contain provisions that afford holders of the RSNs protection in the event the Company is involved in a highly leveraged transaction or other similar transaction that may adversely affect such holders. The Senior Note Indenture does not limit the Company’s ability to issue or incur other debt or issue preferred stock.

The Series 2025B RSNs are initially being offered in one series in the principal amount of $ and the Series 2025C RSNs are initially being offered in one series in the principal amount of $ . If the Company issues additional

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Equity Units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their option to buy additional Corporate Units, the Company may, without the consent of the holders of the RSNs, increase the principal amount of each series and issue up to an additional $ principal amount of Series 2025B RSNs and up to an additional $ principal amount of Series 2025C RSNs, such RSNs having the same ranking, interest rate, maturity and other terms as the existing RSNs of the applicable series. Any such new Series 2025B RSNs, together with the existing Series 2025B RSNs, will constitute a single series of securities under the Senior Note Indenture, and any such new Series 2025C RSNs, together with the existing Series 2025C RSNs, will constitute a single series of securities under the Senior Note Indenture. The existing RSNs and any new RSNs of the same series having the same terms as the applicable