Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000088
Chunk: 169

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
Chunk 169
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 retail investor in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 as amended where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the “Prospectus Regulation”). Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling the Equity Units or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Equity Units or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA, may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.

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This Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus have been prepared on the basis that any offer of the Equity Units in any member state of the EEA will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of the Equity Units. This Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying Prospectus are not a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation.

Japan

The Equity Units have not been and will not be registered under Article 4, Paragraph 1 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law of Japan (Act No. 25 of April 13, 1948, as amended, the “Financial Instruments and Exchange Law”) and each underwriter has represented and agreed that it will not offer or sell any Equity Units, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used in this paragraph means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan), or to, or for the account or benefit of, others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the account or benefit of, any resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with,