Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 19

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 19
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, to the extent applicable, the Surviving Corporation’s payroll (subject to any
required withholding Taxes) to the holders of In-the-Money Company Options, Company RSU Awards and/or Company PSU Awards. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall
take all actions appropriate or necessary (under the Company Equity Plan and award agreements pursuant to which Company Options, Company RSU Awards and Company PSU Awards are outstanding or otherwise) to effect the transactions described in this
.

(g) To the extent a payment pursuant in this would trigger a
Tax or penalty under Section 409A of the Code, such payment shall be made on the earliest date that payment would not trigger such Tax or penalty.

(h) Prior to the Effective Time, the Board of Directors or the appropriate committee of the Board of Directors, as applicable, shall adopt all
resolutions that it determines to be appropriate or necessary (under the Company Equity Plan and award agreements pursuant to which Company Options, Company RSU Awards and Company PSU Awards are outstanding or otherwise) to effect the transactions
described in this .

1.7 Further Action(a) . If, at any time after the Effective Time, any
further action is reasonably determined by Parent to be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement or vest the Surviving Corporation with full right, title and possession of and to all rights and property of Merger Sub and
the Company, the officers and directors of the Surviving Corporation and Parent shall be fully authorized (in the name of Merger Sub and/or in the name of the Company) to take such action.

SECTION 2

THE SURVIVING CORPORATION

2.1 Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws; Directors and Officers.

(a) As of the Effective Time, subject to , the certificate of incorporation of the Company shall by
virtue of the Merger and without any further action, be amended and restated to read in its entirety so that it reads to be the same as the certificate of incorporation of Merger Sub, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, except that
(i) all references therein to Merger Sub shall be automatically amended to become references to the Surviving Corporation, (ii) the provisions naming the initial director(s) or incorporator(s) of Merger Sub shall be omitted and
(iii) the certificate of incorporation shall be amended to comply with , and, as so amended and restated, shall be the certificate of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter changed or
amended as