Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204426
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFA14A
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a party other than the Registrant ☐ Check the appropriate box:

| ☐ | Preliminary Proxy Statement |

| ☐ | Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |

| ☐ | Definitive Proxy Statement |

| ☒ | Definitive Additional Materials |

| ☐ | Soliciting Material under § 240.14a-12 |

STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter) (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):

| ☒ | No fee required. |

| ☐ | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials. |

| ☐ | Fee computed on table in exhibit required by Item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a6(i)(1) and 0-11. |

STAAR Surgical Company (“STAAR”) issued the following press release on September 16, 2025: STAAR Surgical Board of Directors Unanimously Believes Alcon Merger Maximizes Value for STAAR Stockholders Provides Greater Value than STAAR Could Achieve on a Standalone Basis in the Foreseeable Future and is the Best Path Forward for STAAR Stockholders Files Definitive Proxy Materials and Mails Letter to STAAR Stockholders Encourages Stockholders to Vote “FOR” the Value Maximizing Alcon Merger Today LAKE FOREST, CA, September 16, 2025– STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ: STAA), the global leader in phakic IOLs with the EVO family of Implantable Collamer ®Lenses (EVO ICL ™) for vision correction, today announced that it has filed its definitive proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the Company’s pending merger with Alcon (SIX/NYSE: ALC). STAAR will hold a Special Meeting of Stockholders on October 23 at 8:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) to vote to adopt the merger agreement. Stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 12, 2025