Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0000092122-25-000026
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 424B2
Chunk 39
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 on the date of this Prospectus Supplement or the next succeeding business day will be required, because the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes will settle within three business days (T+3), to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes who wish to trade on the date of this Prospectus Supplement or the next succeeding business day 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 of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities), loans, commodities, currencies, credit default swaps and other financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own accounts and for the accounts of their customers. Such investments and securities activities may involve securities and/or instruments of the Company or its affiliates. Certain of the Underwriters or their affiliates that have a lending relationship with the Company routinely hedge, and certain other of the Underwriters or their affiliates may hedge, their credit exposure to the Company 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 the Company’s

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securities, including potentially the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes. Any such credit default swaps or short positions could adversely affect future trading prices of the Series 2025B Junior Subordinated Notes. The Underwriters and their affiliates may also make investment recommendations and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such securities or financial instruments and may hold, or recommend to clients that they acquire, long and/or short positions in such securities and instruments.

Loop Capital Markets LLC has entered into a referral agreement with Northern Trust Securities, Inc., a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) member and subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation, pursuant to which it will pay a referral fee to Northern Trust Securities, Inc