Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 46

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 46
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-officer employees of the Acquired Corporations outside of the United States that are materially consistent with a form of agreement set forth in of the
Company Disclosure Schedule). To the extent applicable, the Company has either delivered or made available to Parent prior to the execution of this Agreement with respect to each material Employee Plan set forth in Section 3.17(c) of the
Company Disclosure Schedule accurate and complete copies of, as applicable: (A) all plan documents and all material amendments thereto,

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and all related trust or other funding documents, and in the case of unwritten material Employee Plans, written descriptions thereof, (B) all determination letters, rulings, opinion letters,
information letters or advisory opinions issued by the IRS or the United States Department of Labor, (C) the most recently filed annual return/report (Form 5500) and accompanying schedules and attachments thereto, (D) the most recently
prepared actuarial report and financial statements and (E) the most recent prospectus or summary plan descriptions and any material modifications thereto.

(d) To the knowledge of the Company, all individuals who are performing, and for the three (3)-year period preceding the date of this
Agreement have performed, services for any Acquired Corporation while classified as independent contractors have been properly so classified for all purposes. In the past two (2) years, no Acquired Corporation has received written notice from
any Person challenging the classification of these individuals as independent contractors.

(e) Neither the Company nor any other Person
that would be or, at any relevant time, would have been considered a single employer with the Company under the Code or ERISA has ever sponsored, maintained, administered, contributed to, has been required to contribute to or has or is reasonably
expected to have any direct or indirect liability with respect to, any plan subject to Title IV of ERISA or Code Section 412, including any “single employer” defined benefit plan or any “multiemployer plan,” each as defined
in Section 4001 of ERISA.

(f) No Acquired Corporation is or has ever been an employer of, or been associated or connected with an
employer of, any defined benefit pension arrangement. No Acquired Corporation has any obligation (written or oral) to fund or contribute to or has any liability (whether current, future or contingent) in respect of a defined benefit pension
arrangement.

(g) Since July 1, 2022, no employee or former employee of any Acquired Corporation transferred to that Ac