Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000088
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-03
Form: 424B5
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 future trading prices of the Corporate Units. 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.

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#### Option to Purchase Additional Corporate Units
The Company has granted an option to the underwriters to purchase within a 13-day period beginning on, and including, the first date of original issuance of the Corporate Units, up to an additional 5,000,000 Corporate Units in the aggregate at the public offering price per Corporate Unit, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. If the underwriters exercise this option, each will be obligated, subject to conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, to purchase an additional amount of the Corporate Units proportionate to that underwriter’s initial amount reflected in the above table.

#### Lock-Up Agreements
The Company and its executive officers and directors have agreed not to, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, for a period of 45 days from the date of this Prospectus Supplement, directly or indirectly, (i) offer, issue, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Corporate Units, Purchase Contracts or shares of the Company’s common stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Corporate Units, Purchase Contracts or common stock (collectively, “common securities”), or file any registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any of the foregoing (other than a shelf registration statement from which no such securities are offered) or publicly announce the intention to do any of the foregoing or (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic consequence of ownership of shares of the Company’s common stock or of common securities, whether any such swap or transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of shares of the Company’s common stock or such common securities, in cash or otherwise, other than (A) the sale of the Corporate Units offered hereby; (B) any shares of the Company’s common stock issued by the Company upon exercise of an option, warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on the date of this Prospectus Supplement; (C