Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001193125-25-286108
Chunk: 61

Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: 424B5
Chunk 61
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 indebtedness to the extent of the assets securing such indebtedness and structurally subordinated to all existing and future indebtedness of our subsidiaries (secured or unsecured). Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets Except as otherwise provided in the indenture or the debt securities, we may not merge into or consolidate with any other entity, or convey, transfer or lease our respective properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any individual, corporation, partnership or other entity, unless:

| • |     | the successor or transferee corporation (or other entity) shall (i) be a corporation, partnership, limited                                                                                                                                           
 liability company, trust or similar entity organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia, and (ii) expressly assume by supplemental indenture the due and punctual payment of 
 the principal of and any interest on the debt securities and the performance of our obligations under the indenture; and                                                                                                                             |

| • |     | immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no event of default, and no event which, after notice of 
 lapse of time or both, would become an event of default will have occurred or be continuing.                 |

Events of Default Unless we inform you otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, the following are events of default with respect to a series of debt securities:

| • |     | a default in the payment of any interest on such series of debt securities when due and payable, and the 
 continuance of such default for a period of 60 days;                                                     |

| • |     | a default in the payment of principal of such series of debt securities when due and payable; |

| • |     | a default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of other covenants of ours in the indenture                             
 applicable to such series of debt securities that continues for 90 consecutive days after we receive notice of the default or breach; and |

| • |     | certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation involving us. |

If an event of bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of us has occurred, the principal of the then-outstanding debt securities and any other amounts payable under the indenture will become immediately due and payable. If any other event of default shall occur and be continuing, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 33% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding debt securities of all series (or, if such default is not applicable to all series of the debt securities