Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-081614
Chunk: 24

Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 424B5
Chunk 24
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 States taxation, at the redemption price described under “—Redemption for Tax Reasons.”

Ranking

The notes will be our senior unsecured obligations and will rank pari passuin right of payment with all of our unsubordinated,
unsecured indebtedness and will be senior in right of payment to all of our subordinated indebtedness. As of December 31, 2024, we had no secured indebtedness and $21.1 billion of indebtedness, and our subsidiaries had $103.7 billion
of indebtedness.

Issuance in Yen; Payment on the Notes

Initial holders will be required to pay for the notes in yen, and all payments of principal of, the redemption price (if any), and interest and
additional amounts (as defined below, if any), on the notes, will be payable in yen, provided, that if on or after the date of this prospectus supplement, the yen is unavailable to us due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances
beyond our control, then all payments in respect of the

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notes will be made in U.S. dollars until the yen is again available to us or so used. The amount payable on any date in yen will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S.
Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S. dollar/yen
exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the Wall Street Journal has not published such exchange rate, the rate will be determined in our sole
discretion on the basis of the most recently available market exchange rate for the yen. Any payment in respect of the notes so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an event of default under the notes or the indenture governing the notes.
Neither the trustee nor the paying agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing.

Investors will be subject to foreign exchange risks as to payments of principal and interest that may have important economic and tax
consequences to them. See “Risk Factors” in this prospectus supplement.

The Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. is the trustee with respect to the notes at its corporate office located at