Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 109

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 109
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 of the Parent Stockholders Meeting as to the aggregate tally of proxies received by Parent with respect to the Parent Stockholder Approval.

(ii) Parent shall, through the Parent Board, unless the Parent Board has made a Parent Adverse Recommendation Change in
compliance with , (A) make the Parent Board Recommendation and include such Parent Board Recommendation in the Joint Proxy Statement, (B) use its reasonable best efforts to solicit from its stockholders
proxies in favor of the Parent Common Stock Issuance, (C) use its reasonable best efforts to take all other action necessary or advisable to secure the Parent Stockholder Approval and (D) otherwise comply in all material respects with
applicable Law with respect to the Parent Stockholders Meeting.

(iii) Except as expressly permitted in
, neither the Parent Board nor any committee thereof shall (A) withhold, withdraw, amend, modify or qualify, or propose publicly to withhold, withdraw, modify or qualify, in a manner adverse to the Company,
the Parent Board Recommendation, (B) fail to include the Parent Board Recommendation in the Joint Proxy Statement, (C) approve, adopt, or recommend, or announce publicly an intent to approve, determine to be advisable, or recommend, any
Competing Proposal, or (D) if requested by the Company, fail to issue, within ten Business Days after a Competing Proposal is publicly announced (and in no event later than one Business Day prior to the date of the Parent Stockholders Meeting,
as it may be postponed or adjourned pursuant to this Agreement), a press release reaffirming the Parent Board Recommendation which request may not be made more than two times in respect of any Competing Proposal (the actions specified in the
foregoing through being referred to as a “”).

(d) The Company and Parent shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to set the record dates for, and to hold the Company
Shareholders Meeting and the Parent Stockholders Meeting on the same date and at the same time; , that, in furtherance of the foregoing, in the event that either the Company shall have postponed or adjourned the Company Shareholders
Meeting in accordance with or Parent shall have postponed or adjourned the Parent Stockholders Meeting in accordance with , the other
Party shall be entitled to delay its meeting for the same number of days or otherwise until the same date as such adjourned or postponed meeting.

(e) . Promptly following the execution of this Agreement (but no later than 24 hours following the execution of this