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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
October 15, 2017

Commission
File Number
Registrant, State of Incorporation,
Address and Telephone Number
I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.
 
 
 
1-14174
Southern Company Gas
(A Georgia Corporation)
Ten Peachtree Place N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 584-4000
58-2210952

The name and address of the registrant have not changed since the last report.

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Item 9.01.
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Southern Company Gas is filing this Current Report on Form 8-K solely to provide as an exhibit the Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 15, 2017, by and between Pivotal Utility Holdings, Inc., as Seller, and South Jersey Industries, Inc., as Buyer (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”).
The Asset Purchase Agreement has been filed as an exhibit to this Current Report on Form 8-K to provide investors and security holders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Southern Company Gas, South Jersey Industries, Inc. or their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. The Asset Purchase Agreement contains representations and warranties by each of the parties to the Asset Purchase Agreement. These representations and warranties were made solely for the benefit of the other party to the Asset Purchase Agreement and (i) are not intended to be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate, (ii) may have been qualified in the Asset Purchase Agreement by confidential disclosure schedules that were delivered to the other party in connection with the signing of the Asset Purchase Agreement, which disclosure schedules contain information that modifies, qualifies and creates exceptions to the representations, warranties and covenants set forth in the Asset Purchase Agreement, (iii) may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the parties that differ from what might be viewed as material to stockholders and (iv) were made only as of the date of the Asset Purchase Agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the Asset Purchase Agreement.





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Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations, warranties and covenants may change after the date of the Asset Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures by Southern Company Gas or South Jersey Industries, Inc. Accordingly, you should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of Southern Company Gas or South Jersey Industries, Inc.

(d)
Exhibits


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date:   October 18, 2017
SOUTHERN COMPANY GAS



 
By
/s/Melissa K. Caen
 
 
Melissa K. Caen
Assistant Secretary