Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 276

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 276
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 to be, a Material Adverse Effect:

| (i) | any change in the market price or trading volume of the Company’s stock or change in the Company’s                                                                                                                       
 credit ratings; provided that the underlying causes of any such change may be considered in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred to the extent not otherwise excluded by another exception herein; |

| (ii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting from the execution, announcement, pendency or                                                                                                                                   
 performance of the Transactions, including the impact thereof on the relationships, contractual or otherwise, of the Company or other Acquired Corporations with any employees, Labor Organization, financing sources, customers, distributors, 
 suppliers, partners, Governmental Bodies or other business relationships (other than for purposes of any representation or warranty contained in, or the condition in Section 7.2(a) to the extent relating to any representation or warranty   
 contained in, Section 3.22, Section 3.8(d) or Section 3.8(l));                                                                                                                                                                                  |

| (iii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect generally affecting the industries in which the Acquired 
 Corporations operate or in the economy generally or other general business, financial or market conditions;    |

| (iv) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect arising directly or indirectly from or otherwise relating                                                                                                                                        
 to general changes in the financial, credit, banking, securities or capital markets in the United States or any other country or region in the world (including any disruption thereof and any decline in the price of any market index) and including 
 changes or developments in or relating to currency exchange or interest rates;                                                                                                                                                                         |

| (v) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect arising directly or indirectly from or otherwise relating                                                                                                                                          
 to any political, social or regulatory conditions (or changes in such conditions) in the United States or any other country or region in the world, act of terrorism, cyberterrorism, ransomware or malware, war, national or international calamity,    
 natural disaster, acts of god, weather or environmental event, epidemic, pandemic, or any other similar event, or any escalation or worsening of any of the foregoing, or any action taken by any Governmental Body in response to any of the foregoing; |

| (vi) | the failure of the Company to meet internal or analysts’ expectations or projections; provided                                                                                               
 that the underlying causes of such failure may be considered in determining whether a Material