Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-090869
Chunk: 22

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form: DEFC14A
Chunk 22
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 (i) during the past ten years, no Participant has
been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors); (ii) no Participant beneficially owns,
directly or indirectly, any securities of the Company; (iii) no Participant owns any securities of the Company of record but not beneficially;
(iv) no Participant has purchased or sold any securities of the Company during the past two years; (v) no part of the purchase price or
market value of the securities of the Company owned by any Participant is represented by funds borrowed or otherwise obtained for the
purpose of acquiring or holding such securities; (vi) no Participant is, or within the past year was, a party to any contract, arrangements
or understandings with any person with respect to any securities of the Company, including, but not limited to, joint ventures, loan or
option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees against loss or guarantees of profit, division of losses or profits, or the giving or withholding
of proxies; (vii) no associate of any Participant owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, any securities of the Company; (viii) no
Participant owns beneficially, directly or indirectly, any securities of any parent or subsidiary of the Company; (ix) no Participant,
any of his, her or its associates, nor any immediate family member of any Participant, was a party to any transaction, or series of similar
transactions, since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, or is a party to any currently proposed transaction, or series
of similar transactions, to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries was or is to be a participant, in which the amount involved exceeds
$120,000; (x) no Participant nor any of his, her or its associates has any arrangement or understanding with any person with respect to
any future employment by the Company or its affiliates, or with respect to any future transactions to which the Company or any of its
affiliates will or may be a party; and (xi) no Participant has a substantial interest, direct or indirect, by securities holdings or otherwise
in any matter to be acted on at the Special Meeting.

| 33 | This includes 18 shares of Common Stock held in three accounts for Mr. LeBuhn’s                                                           
 daughters, as to which he has voting or dispositive control. This does not include 2,532 shares of Common Stock held by three irrevocable 
 trusts for Mr. LeBuhn’s