Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009843
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Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 holders of a majority of our outstanding shares of Common Stock. Any merger involving us or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets would require the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of our outstanding shares of Common Stock.

Insider Trading Policy. The Company has an insider trading policy applicable to its directors, officers and employees, and has implemented procedures for the Company, governing the purchase, sale and other disposition of the Company’s securities. The Company believes its insider trading policy and procedures are reasonably designed to promote compliance with insider trading laws, rules and regulations and listing standards applicable to the Company.

Anti-Hedging and Anti-Pledging Policy. Directors, executive officers and certain of our other employees that are subject to the pre-clearance procedures of our insider trading policy are prohibited from engaging in hedging transactions with respect to our securities. “Hedging transactions” can be accomplished through a number of possible mechanisms, including through the use of financial instruments such as prepaid variable forwards, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds or through other transactions that hedge or offset, or are designed to hedge or offset, any decrease in the market value of our securities. Because hedging transactions might permit a director, executive officer or certain of our other employees to continue to own our securities, whether obtained through our equity compensation plans or otherwise, without the full rewards and risks of ownership, such hedging transactions are prohibited.

We also prohibit our directors, executive officers and certain of our other employees that are subject to the pre-clearance procedures of our insider trading policy from holding our securities in margin accounts or otherwise pledging our securities for a loan. Additionally, we prohibit our directors, executive officers and certain of our other employees that are subject to the pre-clearance procedures of our insider trading policy from engaging in short sales of our securities and purchasing and selling put options, call options or other such derivative securities relating to our securities.

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CODE OF ETHICS</div>

We have adopted a Business Ethics Policy. The full text of the Business Ethics Policy is available through the “Investors” section of our website under the “Corporate Governance” option at www.olysteel.com. The Business Ethics Policy applies not only to our principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer and controller, but also to all of our employees. We intend to disclose any amendments to the Business Ethics Policy, and all waivers of the Business Ethics Policy relating to our principal executive officer, principal financial and accounting officer and controller by posting such information on our website.

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