Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form Type: DFAN14A
Source: 0001213900-25-095514
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form: DFAN14A
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 2025 at 58. 2. Based on publicly disclosed M&A fees for acquisitions of U.S. public companies, for which Citi served as financial advisor to th e target, announced from January 1, 2025 to September 23, 2025, per Deal Point Data. 3. Source: Tatiana Bautzer , “Citi's banking head drives turnaround with more executives, deals, cooperation,” Reuters , August 19, 2025. 4. Just one of STAAR’s independent directors has served as a director of a public company that went through a sale process. $31 $156 STAAR Surgical All Other U.S. Public Company Sell-Side Transactions

Broadwood Partners, L.P. We Believe the Process Was Rife with Material Conflicts (Continued) 49 4 The Chair of STAAR’s Board, Dr. Elizabeth Yeu, appears to have an especially close relationship with Alcon ▪ The Chair of the Board, Dr. Elizabeth Yeu, had previously served as a paid consultant to Alcon; Dr. Yeu received hundreds of tho usands of dollars from Alcon over a seven - year period 1 ▪ Dr. Yeu also served as a member of Alcon’s “speaker’s bureau,” 2 a group of individuals designated to speak to patients, customers and partners and others about Alcon’s products — Dr. Yeu has delivered presentations on Alcon products and promoted Alcon and its products at major industry conferences, 3 in sponsored content published in industry publications 4 and to her network on LinkedIn 1. Source: Source: STAAR proxy statement on Form DEFM14A, filed with the SEC on September 16, 2025 at 46. 2. Source: Christopher Kent,” Facilitating Phaco with Cutting - edge Tech,” Review of Ophthalmology , December 10, 2021. 3. Source: Alcon Press Release, May 11, 2020. 4. Source: Quentin B. Allen, MD; Nicole Fram, MD; Farrell “Toby” Tyson, MD, FACS; and Elizabeth Yeu, MD, “Using Acrysof ® IQ Panoptix ® and Vivity in Your Practices,” Insert to Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today and MillennialEye , November/December 2021. Dr. Yeu has promoted Alcon and its products in industry publications… …And to her network on LinkedIn… …