Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-258558
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
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. If you encounter any difficulties accessing the virtual Special Meeting during the check-in or meeting time, please call the 
 technical support number that will be posted on the Special Meeting website. Technical support will be available starting 15 minutes prior to the Special Meeting.                               |

If you hold shares of STAAR common stock as a beneficial owner in “street name” as of the Record Date, you will receive separate instructions from your bank, broker or other nominee describing how to vote your shares, and you will not be able to vote your shares at the Special Meeting without a legal proxy. Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, STAAR urges you to vote in advance by proxy to ensure your vote is counted. STAAR encourages you to submit your proxy over the Internet or by telephone, in each case, as instructed on your updatedWHITE proxy card, both of which are is a convenient, cost-effective and reliable alternative s to returning a proxy card by mail.You may still attend the virtual Special Meeting and vote during the virtual Special Meeting if you have already voted by proxy , but any such vote during the Special Meeting will revoke any earlier dated proxy. Please be aware that, although there is no charge for voting your shares of STAAR common stock, if you vote electronically over the Internet by visiting the website on your updatedWHITE proxy card or by telephone by calling the phone number of your WHITE proxy card, in each case,you may incur costs such as Internet access and telephone chargesfor which you will be responsible.

| Q: | May I change my vote after I have mailed my signed and dated proxy card? |

| A: | Yes. You may change your vote in the manner described in this proxy statement. We further recommend that STAAR                                                                                                                                   
 stockholders disregard any proxy card sent to them by or on behalf of any person other than STAAR, including any green proxy card and solicitation materials that may be sent to STAAR stockholders by or on behalf of Broadwood Group, which is 
 soliciting proxies in opposition to the Board’s recommendations presented in this proxy statement, including the Merger Proposal and the Compensation Proposal. If you have submitted such a proxy card (including a green proxy card), we ask   
 that you recast your vote as instructed in this proxy statement. You may do this by:                                                                                                                                                             |

| • |     | At Voting at the Special                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Meeting: Virtually attending the Special Meeting and voting at the Special Meeting as instructed in your updated WHITE proxy card. Please note that virtual