Company: SSUP
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-031532
Chunk: 57

Company: SUPERIOR INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-15
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 57
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 that the stockholders of the Company vote to adopt the Merger Agreement. |

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Accordingly, the Board recommends that, at the special meeting, you vote (i) “ FOR” the Merger Agreement Proposal, (ii) “ FOR” the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal and (iii) “ FOR” the Adjournment Proposal. Reasons for the Merger After careful consideration, with the assistance of experienced independent financial and legal advisors, as well as the Company’s management team,

| • | the Transaction Committee unanimously (i) approved and declared advisable, and recommended that the Board approve and declare advisable, the Merger Agreement, the execution, delivery and performance thereof and the consummation of the Transactions, including the Merger, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement; (ii) determined that the Merger is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders; (iii) recommended to the Board that the Merger Agreement be submitted to the Company’s stockholders for adoption; and (iv) recommended to the Board that the Board recommend that the stockholders of the Company vote to adopt the Merger Agreement; and |

| • | the Board (i) approved and declared advisable the Merger Agreement, the execution, delivery and performance thereof and the consummation of the Transactions, including the Merger, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement; (ii) determined that the Merger is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders; (iii) directed that the Merger Agreement be submitted to the stockholders of the Company for adoption; and (iv) resolved to recommend that the stockholders of the Company vote to adopt the Merger Agreement. |

The Board recommends that you vote (i) “ FOR” the Merger Agreement Proposal, (ii) “ FOR” the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal and (iii) “ FOR” the Adjournment Proposal. In evaluating the Merger, the Transaction Committee and the Board each consulted with the Company’s financial and legal advisors, as well as the Company’s management team, and considered a number of factors that supported their respective decisions to approve the Merger Agreement (not necessarily in order of relative importance) and the Merger, including the following:

| • | Consideration. The Transaction Committee and the Board considered the fact that the Transactions provide, in the view of both the Transaction Committee and the Board, (a) the highest