Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
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Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
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0B of the Code or any similar state law (“”) at the participant’s sole cost or coverage through the end of the calendar
month in which a termination of employment occurs).

(i) Neither the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Merger or
other Transactions (either alone or in combination with another event) will (i) entitle any current or former employee or director of the Company or its Subsidiaries to any compensation, (ii) accelerate the time of payment or vesting or
trigger any payment or funding obligation (through a grantor trust or otherwise) of compensation or benefits, (iii) increase the amount payable or trigger any other obligation pursuant to any Company Benefit Plan or (iv) result in any
breach or violation of, or default under, any Company Benefit Plan.

(j) No amount that has been or could be received (whether in cash or
property or the vesting of property) by any current or former employee, officer, director or other service provider of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries could, as a result of or in connection with the consummation of the Merger or other
Transactions (either alone or in combination with another event), reasonably be characterized as an “excess parachute payment” (within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code).

(k) Except as has not had or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect,
each Company Benefit Plan that is subject to Section 409A of the Code has been operated and maintained in operational and documentary compliance with Section 409A of the Code and all IRS guidance promulgated thereunder. There is no
material agreement, plan, Contract or other arrangement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or by which any of them is otherwise bound to compensate any Person in respect of Taxes, including Taxes under Sections 409A or 4999
of the Code.

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(l) Except as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse
Effect, with respect to each Company Benefit Plan that is subject to the Laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States (whether or not United States law also applies) (a “Company Non-U.S.
Plan”): (i) all employer and employee contributions to each Company Non-U.S. Plan required by Law or by the terms of such Company Non-U.S. Plan have been timely