Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 14
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ation payable upon the surrender of any Certificates or Book-Entry Shares for the benefit of the holder thereof. If the payment of any Merger Consideration is to be made to a Person other than
the Person in whose name the surrendered Certificates formerly evidencing the Shares is registered on the stock transfer books of the Company, it shall be a condition of payment that the Certificate so surrendered shall be endorsed properly or
otherwise be in proper form for transfer and that the Person requesting such payment

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shall have paid all transfer and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment of the Merger Consideration to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate surrendered
(“”), or shall have established to the reasonable satisfaction of the Surviving Corporation that such Other Person Transfer Taxes either have been paid or are not applicable. Except as required by Legal
Requirements, none of Parent, Merger Sub or the Surviving Corporation shall have any liability for the Other Person Transfer Taxes described in the immediately preceding sentence of this ; provided,
that if Legal Requirements impose any such liability on Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation, such Person requesting the payment as described in the immediately preceding sentence of this shall
cause such Other Person Transfer Taxes to be paid on behalf of Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation (such that none of Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation has any economic responsibility for such Other Person Transfer
Taxes). Payment of the applicable Merger Consideration with respect to Book-Entry Shares shall only be made to the Person in whose name such Book-Entry Shares are registered. Until surrendered as contemplated by this
, each Certificate and Book-Entry Share (in each case, other than the Dissenting Shares (subject to ) and Excluded Shares) shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time
to represent only the right to receive the applicable Merger Consideration as contemplated by .

(c)
At any time following the twelve (12)-month anniversary of the Effective Time, Parent shall be entitled to require the Exchange Agent to deliver to it any funds (with respect to the aggregate Merger Consideration to which holders of Shares shall
become entitled pursuant to ) which had been made available to the Exchange Agent and not disbursed to holders of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares (including all interest and other income received by the
Exchange Agent in respect of all funds made available to it), and, thereafter, such holders shall be entitled to look to the Surviving Corporation (subject