Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 68

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 68
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 maintain in full force and effect the existing Insurance Policies
or, alternatively, to renew or replace such Insurance Policies with new insurance policies that have terms that are no less favorable in the aggregate; providedthat the Acquired Corporations, in no event, shall be required to maintain
Insurance Policies or obtain new or replacement insurance policies to the extent that the coverage provided thereunder is duplicative of existing insurance coverage;

(xix) materially change any financial accounting methods or practices used by any Acquired Corporation, except as required by GAAP or
applicable Legal Requirements (including the Financial Accounting Standards Board or any similar organization, Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act or applicable Legal Requirement);

(xx) adopt a plan or agreement of complete or partial liquidation or dissolution, merger, consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization or
other reorganization of any of the Acquired Corporations; or

(xxi) authorize any of, or agree or commit to take, any of the actions
described in the foregoing through of this .

Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing contained herein shall give to Parent or Merger Sub, directly or indirectly, rights to control or direct the operations of the Acquired Corporations prior to the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, each of Parent and the Company
shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions hereof, complete control and supervision of its and its, if applicable, Subsidiaries’ respective operations consistent with applicable Legal Requirements, including the Antitrust Laws.

5.3 Stockholder Meeting; Proxy Statement.

(a) The Company shall establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of its stockholders (together with
any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “”) as promptly as reasonably practicable after the earliest to occur of (i) the date on which the SEC confirms that it has no further comments on the Proxy
Statement, (ii) the receipt of confirmation from the SEC that it will not be reviewing the Proxy Statement or (iii) if the SEC has failed to affirmatively notify the Company that it will or will not

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be reviewing the Proxy Statement within ten (10) calendar days after the initial filing of the Proxy Statement with the SEC, the tenth (10th) day after such filing (the earliest of such
dates described in -, the “”), for the purpose of (A) voting on the matters requiring Company Stockholder Approval; and (B) in accordance with Section 14A of the Exchange Act