Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 113

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 113
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 of STAAR common stock as instructed if the beneficial owner provides such instructions. If a beneficial owner of shares of
STAAR common stock held in “street name” instructs such person’s broker, bank, trust, or other nominee to vote such person’s shares of STAAR common stock in favor of the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement, and does not
revoke such instruction prior to the vote on such proposal, then such shares of STAAR common stock will be voted in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement, and it will cause such beneficial owner to lose his, her, its or their right to
appraisal and will nullify any previously delivered written demand for appraisal. Therefore, a beneficial owner who wishes to exercise appraisal rights must either not provide any instructions to such person’s broker, bank, trust, or other
nominee how to vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement or must instruct such broker, bank, trust, or other nominee to vote against the adoption of the Merger Agreement or abstain from voting on such proposal. Neither voting against the proposal
to adopt the Merger Agreement nor abstaining from voting or failing to vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement will, in and of itself, constitute a written demand for appraisal satisfying the requirements of Section 262. The written demand
for appraisal must be in addition to and separate from any proxy or vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement. A proxy or vote against the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement will not constitute a demand. A stockholder’s or beneficial
owner’s failure to make the written demand prior to the taking of the vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the Special Meeting will cause such person to lose its appraisal rights in connection with the Merger.

A demand for appraisal made by a stockholder or beneficial owner should be executed by or on behalf of the holder of record or beneficial
owner, as applicable, and must reasonably inform STAAR of the identity of such stockholder or beneficial owner. In addition, in the case of a demand for appraisal of such beneficial owner, the demand must also (a) reasonably identify the holder
of record of the shares of STAAR common stock for which the demand is made, (b) be accompanied by documentary evidence of the beneficial owner’s ownership of stock (such as a brokerage or securities account statement containing such
information or a letter from the broker or other record holder of such shares of STAAR common stock confirming such information) and a statement that