Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 1

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 1
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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |

On August 4, 2025, STAAR Surgical Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Alcon Research, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Alcon”), and Rascasse Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned direct subsidiary of Alcon (“Merger Sub”). The Merger Agreement provides, among other things, that subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcon. The board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) has unanimously (a) determined that the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby are fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and its stockholders (b) approved and declared advisable the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby and (c) resolved to recommend that the Company’s stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement. The stockholders of the Company will be asked to vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement at a stockholder meeting that will be held on a date, and at a time and place, to be announced. Merger Consideration Under the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (“Company Common Stock”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than certain excluded shares as described in the Merger Agreement) will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive $28.00 in cash, without interest (the “Merger Consideration”). Conditions to the Merger The respective obligations of the Company, on one hand, and Alcon and Merger Sub, on the other hand, to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of a number of conditions, including: (1) the adoption of the Merger Agreement by the Company’s stockholders; (2) the absence of any law or order prohibiting consummation of the Merger in specified jurisdictions