Hunton & Williams LLP advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by The Southern Company ("Southern Company") of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2018.

With 4.4 million customers and nearly 46,000 MW of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company is the premier energy company serving the Southeast through its subsidiaries. A leading US producer of clean, safe, reliable and affordable electricity, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications.

The Hunton & Williams LLP team included Bud Ellis and Danielle Herrick.