Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 140

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 140
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, warranties, covenants or other agreements set forth in this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, (a) only the Company or Parent, as applicable (and not their
respective stockholders or shareholders, as applicable) may bring an action pursuing liability for such damages and (b) the Company or Parent, as applicable, may retain, without distribution to its stockholders or shareholders, as applicable,
any such damages received. No termination of this Agreement shall affect the obligations of the Parties contained in the Confidentiality Agreement, all of which obligations shall survive the termination of this Agreement in accordance with their
terms.

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7.3 .

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this and except for (i) the expenses in connection with
printing and mailing the Joint Proxy Statement and the Form S-4 required in connection with the actions specified in , (ii) all SEC filing fees relating to the
Transactions and (iii) the filing fees in connection with the approvals required under related to the Transactions (each of which fees and expenses shall be borne, in each case, equally by Parent and the
Company), all fees and expenses incurred by the Parties shall be borne solely by the Party that has incurred such fees and expenses and all such fees and expenses shall be paid by the applicable responsible Party concurrently with the Closing. All
transfer, documentary, sales, use, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes and fees imposed with respect to, or as a result of, the Merger shall be borne by Parent.

(b) If this Agreement is terminated (i) pursuant to (or pursuant to any other provision of
at a time when Parent would have been entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to ) or (ii) pursuant to ,
then the Company shall pay to Parent $15,000,000(the “”) no later than three Business Days (x) following such termination in the case of a termination pursuant to
above or (y) following consummation of the transaction in respect of such Competing Proposal in which the Company has terminated this Agreement pursuant to
.

(c) (i) If this Agreement is terminated (A) pursuant to
or (B) pursuant to , and (ii) in any such case a Competing Proposal shall have been publicly announced (and not publicly withdrawn)
after the date of this Agreement and prior to the date of the Company Shareholders Meeting, in the case of , or the date of termination, in the case of , and (iii) if within 12 months after the date of such