Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-069429
Chunk: 42

Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: 424B5
Chunk 42
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 amount of the % Senior Notes due ; (ii) % of the principal amount of the % Senior Notes due ; and (iii) % of the principal amount of the % Senior Notes due to certain other dealers. After the initial offering, the underwriters may change the public offering price and any other selling terms. The underwriters may offer and sell notes through certain of their affiliates. The offering of the notes by the underwriters is subject to receipt and acceptance and subject to the underwriters’ right to reject any order in whole or in part. In the underwriting agreement, we have agreed that, subject to certain exceptions, we will indemnify the several underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or contribute to payments that the underwriters may be required to make in respect of those liabilities. The following table shows the underwriting discount that we will pay to the underwriters in connection with this offering of notes:

|                    |     | Underwriting        
 Discount paid by us |     |   |     |       |
|                    |     | Per Note            |     |   |     | Total |
| % Senior Notes due |     |                     |     | % |     | ¥     |
| % Senior Notes due |     |                     |     | % |     | ¥     |
| % Senior Notes due |     |                     |     | % |     | ¥     |

We estimate that we will spend approximately $ for printing, rating agency fees, trustee and legal fees and other expenses related to this offering. The notes are new issues of securities with no established trading market. We do not intend to apply for any series of the notes to be listed on any securities exchange or to arrange for the notes to be quoted on any quotation system. S-26

The underwriters have advised us that they intend to make a market in the notes. However,
they are not obligated to do so and may discontinue any market making at any time in their sole discretion. Therefore, we cannot assure you that a liquid trading market will develop for the notes, that you will be able to sell your notes at a
particular time or that the prices that you receive when you sell will be favorable.

In connection with the issue of the notes, Mizuho
Securities USA LLC (in this capacity, the “Stabilizing Manager”) (or persons acting on behalf of the Stabilizing Manager) may over-allot notes or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the notes at a level higher