Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 133

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 133
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 authorization and payment of regular quarterly dividends on Company Common Stock at a rate not in excess of $0.16 per share, per calendar quarter consistent with past practice and made solely out of the
Company’s cash on hand prior to the Effective Time and (b) in the case of Parent, subject to the terms of this, the authorization and payment of regular quarterly dividends on shares of Parent Common Stock at a
rate not in excess of $0.1875 per share, per calendar quarter in accordance with past practice and made solely out of Parent’s cash on hand prior to the Effective Time (any dividend permitted under the preceding and
, a “”);,, that (i) any Permitted Dividend authorized by a Party shall be deemed to relate to the calendar quarter in which the record date for such
Permitted Dividend occurs, even if the payment date for such Permitted Dividend occurs in

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a subsequent calendar quarter; (ii) it is agreed that the Parties shall take such actions as are necessary to ensure that if either the holders of Company Common Stock or the holders of
Parent Common Stock are entitled to receive a dividend for a particular calendar quarter prior to the Closing Date, then the holders of Parent Common Stock and the holders of Company Common Stock, respectively, shall also receive a dividend for such
calendar quarter, as necessary to result in the holders of Company Common Stock and the holders of Parent Common Stock receiving dividends covering the same periods prior to the Closing Date; and (iii) the Parties will cooperate such that, and
Parent will ensure that, any Permitted Dividend authorized by Parent having a record date in the calendar quarter in which the Closing occurs will have the same record date as the Company’s Permitted Dividend for such calendar quarter in order
to ensure that the shareholders of the Company and stockholders of Parent are entitled to receive the same number of such dividends between the date hereof and the Effective Time.

5.18 . Parent and the Company will cooperate and use their respective reasonable best
efforts to cause the delisting of shares of Company Common Stock from NASDAQ and the deregistration of such shares under the Exchange Act as promptly as practicable following the Closing in compliance with applicable Law.

5.19 . As soon as practicable following the date hereof, the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to provide Parent
with calculations and reasonable back up information relating to Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code relating to the Transactions, and shall provide Parent with an update to such