Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 92

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 92
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 independent registered public accounting firm is in the best interests of the Company and our stockholders.

Representatives of Deloitte & Touche are expected to attend the 2025 annual meeting and be available to respond to appropriate questions from stockholders and will have the opportunity to make a statement if they desire to do so.

#### Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement81
| 4The Board has determined that it is in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders to reduce the current two-thirds supermajority vote requirement in Article Eleventh of the Certificate to a majority vote. 
 4The Board proposed a similar amendment to the Certificate seven times in the last 12 years (including last year) and is putting the amendment up for vote again this year.                                              |     |                                             |
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |     | The Board recommends a voteFORthis proposal |

#### Current Provision in Certificate
Article Eleventh of our Certificate currently requires the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of our issued and outstanding common stock in order to:

4 Authorize or create any class of stock preferred as to dividends or assets over the common stock or reclassify the common stock or change the issued shares of common stock into the same or a greater or less number of shares of common stock either with or without par value or reduce the par value of the common stock (collectively, Stock Changes); and

4 Amend, alter, change or repeal Article Twelfth (with respect to preemptive rights), Article Eleventh (with respect to Stock Changes and amendments to the Certificate) or any provision contained in the Certificate or in any amendment thereto that provides for the vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the issued and outstanding common stock.

#### Proposed Amendment to Certificate
The proposed amendment to Article Eleventh of the Certificate is as follows:

4 Replace the two-thirds supermajority vote requirement with a requirement that the affirmative vote of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company is required to approve any Stock Change; and

4 Remove the two-thirds supermajority vote requirement necessary to amend, alter, change or repeal certain provisions of the Certificate, as more fully described above, so that all amendments, alterations, changes or repeals of the Certificate require the affirmative vote of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Company, which is the default voting standard for such actions under Delaware law.

The text of the proposed amendment to Article Eleventh of the Certificate, marked to show changes from the