Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001193125-25-257069
Chunk: 68

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 425
Chunk 68
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, to consummate the Transactions applicable to such party. The execution and delivery by Parent of this
Agreement, the performance and compliance by Parent with its obligations herein and the consummation by Parent of the Transactions have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Parent, subject to the receipt of the
Parent Stockholder Approval and to the adoption of this Agreement by Parent as the sole shareholder of Merger Sub, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Parent and no other stockholder votes are necessary to authorize this Agreement or
the consummation by Parent of the Transactions to which it is a party. Parent has duly and validly executed and delivered this Agreement and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement, this Agreement
constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as limited by Laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, by general equitable principles or by the discretion
of any Governmental Entity before which any Proceeding seeking enforcement may be brought.

(b) The Parent Board, at a meeting duly called
and held, adopted resolutions (i) determining that the Transactions, including the Merger and the issuance of shares of Parent Common Stock in connection with the Merger (the “”), are advisable,
fair to and in the best interests of Parent and its stockholders, (ii) approving, adopting and declaring advisable this Agreement and the Transactions, including the Merger and the Parent Common Stock Issuance, (iii) directing that the
Parent Common Stock Issuance be submitted to the stockholders of Parent for approval, and (iv) recommending that the Parent stockholders approve the Parent Common Stock Issuance (the “”).

(c) Subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties in , the Parent Board has taken all necessary
actions so that the restrictions on business combinations set forth in Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and any other similar Law are not applicable to this Agreement and the Transactions. The only vote of holders of any
class or series of Equity Interests of Parent necessary to approve the Transactions is the Parent Stockholder Approval. No other vote of the holders of Parent Common Stock or any other Equity Interests of Parent is necessary to consummate the
Transactions.

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(a) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent does not and will not, and the performance of this Agreement by Parent and the
consummation of the Transactions will not