Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 141

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 141
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1) business day of such material development, discussion, or negotiation). As described under the caption “ —Termination Fees,” if STAAR terminates the Merger Agreement after the date of the Merger Agreement but prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by STAAR stockholders for the purpose of entering into an agreement in respect of a Superior Offer, STAAR must pay the STAAR Termination Fee to Alcon, which is reduced in the case of an acquiror that made an Acquisition Proposal which, before the expiration of the 45-daywindow shop period (which ends at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on September 19, 2025), the Board determines constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to a Superior Offer. An “Acquisition Proposal” is defined as any bona fideinquiry, proposal or offer from any person (other than Alcon and its affiliates) or “group” (other than a “group” that includes Alcon or its affiliates), relating to, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, any:

| • |     | acquisition or exclusive license of assets of STAAR or any STAAR subsidiary equal to more than twenty percent                                                                                                                                 
 (20%) of the consolidated assets (based on the fair market value thereof) of STAAR and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or to which more than twenty percent (20%) of STAAR’s and its subsidiaries’ revenues or earnings on a consolidated 
 basis are attributable;                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |

| • |     | issuance or acquisition of more than twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate voting power of the capital stock or 
 equity interests of STAAR;                                                                                      |

| • |     | recapitalization, tender offer or exchange offer that if consummated would result in any person or group (or the                                                                                                                                     
 stockholders of any person) beneficially owning more than twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate voting power of the capital stock or equity interests of STAAR (or the surviving entity, or the resulting direct or indirect parent of STAAR or such 
 surviving entity); or                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | merger, consolidation, amalgamation, share exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation,                                                                                                                                             
 dissolution, or similar transaction involving any of STAAR or its subsidiaries that if consummated would result in any person or group (or the stockholders of any person) beneficially owning more than twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate voting 
 power of the capital stock or