Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0000092122-25-000002
Chunk: 19

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form: 424B5
Chunk 19
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 a Direct Participant in accordance with DTC’s procedures. Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an Omnibus Proxy to the Company as soon as possible after the record date. The Omnibus Proxy assigns Cede & Co.’s consenting or voting rights to those Direct Participants to whose accounts the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes are credited on the record date (identified in a listing attached to the Omnibus Proxy).

Payments on the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will be made to Cede & Co., or such other nominee as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. DTC’s practice is to credit Direct Participants’ accounts upon DTC’s receipt of funds and corresponding detail information from the Company or the Subordinated Note Indenture Trustee on the relevant payment date in accordance with their respective holdings shown on DTC’s records. Payments by Direct or Indirect Participants to

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Beneficial Owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is the case with securities held for the account of customers registered in “street name,” and will be the responsibility of such Direct or Indirect Participant and not of DTC or the Company, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment to Cede & Co. (or such other nominee as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC) is the responsibility of the Company, disbursement of such payments to Direct Participants is the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of such payments to the Beneficial Owners is the responsibility of Direct and Indirect Participants.

Except as provided herein, a Beneficial Owner of a global Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Note will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes. Accordingly, each Beneficial Owner must rely on the procedures of DTC to exercise any rights under the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes. The laws of some jurisdictions require that certain purchasers of securities take physical delivery of securities in definitive form. Such laws may impair the ability to transfer beneficial interests in a global Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Note.

DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities depository with respect to the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes at any time by giving reasonable notice to the Company. Under such circumstances, in the event that a successor securities depository is not obtained, Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes certificates will be required to be