Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 260

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 260
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 a result of the
failure of the Transactions to be consummated or for a breach of, or failure to perform under, this Agreement (including in respect of any Willful Breach), and upon payment of the Parent Termination Fee (together with any amounts that become due
pursuant to and ), none of the Parent Related Parties shall have any further liability or obligation relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the Transactions,
whether in equity or at law, in contract, in tort or otherwise, other than any liability under the Confidentiality Agreement or the Clean Team Agreement or liability for Fraud.

(f) The Parties acknowledge that the agreements contained in this are an integral part of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and that, without these agreements, the Parties would not enter into this Agreement; accordingly, if the Company fails to timely pay any amount due pursuant to , or
Parent fails to timely pay any amount due pursuant to , and, in order to obtain the payment, Parent or the Company, as applicable, commences a Legal Proceeding which results in a judgment against the other
Party or the other Party eventually makes such payment, then the non-prevailing Party shall pay to the prevailing Party its reasonable and documented costs and expenses (including reasonable and documented
attorneys’ fees) in connection with such suit, together with interest on such amount at the prime rate as published in the Wall Street Journal in effect on the date such payment was required to be made through the date such payment was
actually received.

(g) The Parent Termination Fee is exclusive of Swiss VAT. The payment of, and liability for, any Swiss VAT imposed
with respect to the payment of the Parent Termination Fee shall be the sole responsibility of Parent.

SECTION 9

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

9.1 Amendment. This Agreement may not be amended except by an instrument in writing signed on behalf of each of the Parties prior to
the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, this Agreement may be amended

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with the approval of the respective boards of directors of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub at any time, whether before or after the Company Stockholder Approval has been obtained; providedthat after the Company Stockholder Approval has been obtained, no amendment shall be made that by any Legal Requirement requires further approval by the Company’s stockholders without the further approval of such stockholders.

9.2 Waiver. No failure on the part of any Party to exercise any power, right, privilege or