Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 222

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 222
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 in control benefits, retention bonuses or other material contractual benefits;

(v) amend or permit the adoption of any amendment to its certificate of incorporation or bylaws or other charter or similar organizational
documents;

(vi) (A) form any subsidiary, (B) acquire any equity interest in or material portion of the assets of any other
Entity, or (C) enter into any material joint venture, partnership, or similar arrangement, except (i) in the cases of and , in transactions between the Company and a wholly owned Acquired Corporation or

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between wholly owned Acquired Corporations and (ii) for purchases of supplies, raw material, inventory and similar assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(vii) make or authorize any capital expenditures exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate in any calendar year;

(viii) lease, license, sublicense, pledge, sell or otherwise dispose of, divest or spin-off,
relinquish, create or incur any Encumbrance (other than any Permitted Encumbrances) on, transfer or assign, any material asset or material real or personal property (other than Intellectual Property Rights, which are addressed in
below, and cash), except (A) in the ordinary course of business, (B) pursuant to dispositions of obsolete, surplus or worn out assets that are no longer useful in the conduct of the business of
the Acquired Corporations, (C) capital expenditures permitted by , (D) transactions between the Company and any other wholly owned Acquired Corporation or between wholly owned Acquired Corporations,
(E) pursuant to existing Contracts in effect prior to the execution of this Agreement or (F) for a purchase price (or if no purchase price is received, with a value) not in excess of $5,000,000 in aggregate in any fiscal year;

(ix) lease, license, sublicense, pledge, sell, or otherwise dispose of, divest or spin-off, abandon,
waive, create or incur any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance) on, relinquish or permit to lapse (other than any Registered IP expiring at the end of its statutory term or any withdrawal or abandonment of existing applications for
Registered IP that have not yet been granted), grant any other right or immunity under (whether present or contingent, including any option, right of first refusal or other preferential right, non-assert or
covenant not to sue), transfer or assign,