Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 127

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 127
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 on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand, shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly notify the other Party if, at any time before the Effective Time, it has
Knowledge of any facts, agreements, plans or other circumstances that would reasonably be expected to prevent, cause a failure of, or impede the Merger from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment.

(b) . Parent, Merger Sub and the Company shall each reasonably cooperate with one another and their respective counsel and
use reasonable best efforts to cause the delivery of each of the Company Tax Opinion and the Parent Tax Opinion. Each of Parent and the Company shall execute and deliver to each of Company Tax Counsel and Parent Tax Counsel a Tax representation
letter (i) substantially in the form of and attached hereto, (ii) dated as of the date of such opinion and (iii) signed by an officer of the Company or Parent and Merger Sub, as
applicable. Parent and the Company shall provide such other information as reasonably requested by each of Company Tax Counsel and Parent Tax Counsel for purposes of rendering the Company Tax Opinion or Parent Tax Opinion, as applicable.

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(c) . At the Closing, the Company shall deliver to Parent a
certificate and notice prepared in accordance with the requirements of Treasury Regulations Section 1.897-2(h)(2) and 1.1445-2(c)(3) and dated as of the Closing
Date, along with written authorization for Parent to deliver such certificate and notice to the IRS on behalf of the Company upon the Closing; , that the only remedy for any failure to deliver the documentation described in this
paragraph shall be to make an appropriate withholding (to the extent required by applicable Law) from consideration deliverable in connection with this Agreement consistent with the terms of .

5.14 .

(a) Parent shall, or shall cause a Subsidiary to, provide each employee of the Company and its Subsidiaries immediately prior to the
Effective Time who does not provide services pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or other Contract with any Union and who continues employment with Parent or its Subsidiaries (including the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries)
following the Effective Time (each, a “”), subject to continued employment, with the following: (i) during the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the first anniversary of the Closing Date,
(A) an annual base salary or hourly wage rate that is not less than the annual base salary or hourly wage rate for which such