Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0000092122-25-000006
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Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: 424B2
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 rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company Gas is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in four states – Illinois, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee – through its natural gas distribution utilities. Southern Company Gas is also involved in several other businesses that are complementary to the distribution of natural gas. The Offering

| Issuer                 
 Security Offered       
 Maturity               
 Interest Rate          |     | The Southern Company.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 The Company is offering $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount ($575,000,000 aggregate principal amount if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full) of its Series 2025A 6.50% Junior Subordinated Notes due March 15, 2085. The Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued in registered form and in denominations of $25.00 and integral multiples of $25.00 in excess thereof. 
 The Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will mature on March 15, 2085.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 The Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will bear interest at a fixed rate of 6.50% per year.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| Interest Payment Dates |     | Subject to the Company’s right to defer interest payments as described below, interest on the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes will be payable quarterly in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year (each an “Interest Payment Date”), beginning on March 15, 2025.                                                                                                          |

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| Option to Defer Interest Payments                    |     | So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at the Company’s option, it may, on one or more occasions, defer payment of all or part of the current and accrued interest otherwise due on the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes by extending the interest payment period for up to 40 consecutive quarterly periods (each period, commencing on the date that the first such interest payment would otherwise have been made, an “Optional Deferral Period”). In other words, the Company may declare at its discretion up to a 10-year interest payment moratorium on the Series 2025A Junior Subordinated Notes and may choose to do so on more than one occasion. A deferral of interest payments may