Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 138

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 138
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 equivalents or commercial paper, certificates of deposit, U.S. treasury securities or corporate debt securities with a maturity of less than two (2) years as of the date of such investment or 
 reinvestment;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

| • |     | except as required or expressly permitted by the provisions of the Merger Agreement governing employee matters                                                                                                                               
 and STAAR’s 401(k) plan, renewals of contracts on substantially similar terms, or extensions of contracts in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (i) amend or modify in any material respect, waive or settle any 
 material rights or claims under, or voluntarily terminate, any material contract in a manner which is adverse to STAAR, (ii) enter into specified types of new material contracts, or (iii) elect not to extend any lease in respect of      
 material leased property;                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |

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| • |     | except in the ordinary course of business: (i) make any change to any accounting method or any change to any                                                                                                                                          
 accounting period, in each case, used for tax purposes; (ii) rescind or change any tax election; (iii) file an amended tax return; (iv) enter into a closing agreement with any governmental body regarding any tax liability or                      
 assessment (or surrender a right to a tax refund); (v) settle, compromise or consent to any tax claim or assessment for an amount materially in excess of the amount reserved therefor in STAAR’s SEC filings; or (vi) waive or extend the            
 statute of limitations with respect to the filing of any tax return (except in connection with automatic or automatically granted extensions of time to file tax returns granted in the ordinary course of business); in each case of the immediately 
 preceding clauses (i) through (vi), if such action would materially increase the tax liability of STAAR or any of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;                                                                                                 |

| • |     | settle, satisfy, release, waive or compromise any legal proceeding or other claim (or threatened legal proceeding                                                                                                                             
 or other claim) against STAAR or any of its subsidiaries, other than any settlement, satisfaction, release, waiver or compromise that results in (i) monetary obligations not exceeding $500,000 individually or $2 million in the aggregate, 
 in each case net of insurance proceeds, and (ii) no material non-monetary obligation of STAAR or any of its subsidiaries (excluding confidentiality,                                                                                          
 non-disparagement, and similar customary provisions) (other than