Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-090869
Chunk: 18

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form: DEFC14A
Chunk 18
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 of approximately $2,000,000
for, in furtherance of, or in connection with the solicitation of proxies, including fees for attorneys, accountants, public relations
or financial advisers, solicitors, advertising, printing, transportation, litigation and other costs incidental to the solicitation. As
of the date hereof, Broadwood estimates that its total expenditures to date for, in furtherance of, or in connection with the solicitation
of proxies is approximately $600,000. Broadwood does not intend to seek reimbursement from the Company of any expenses it incurs in
connection with its solicitation of proxies for the Merger Proposals at the Special Meeting.

Broadwood
will solicit proxies from individuals, brokers, banks and other nominees. Brokerage houses, banks, and other custodians and fiduciaries
will be requested to forward all solicitation materials to the customers for whom they hold shares, and Broadwood will reimburse them
for their reasonable out- of-pocket expenses. Solicitations may be made by certain of the respective directors, officers and employees
of Broadwood listed in , none of whom will receive additional compensation for such solicitation. Other than the persons
described in this Proxy Statement, no general class of employee of Broadwood will be employed to solicit stockholders in connection with
the Special Meeting. However, in the course of their regular duties, our directors, officers and employees may be asked to perform clerical
or ministerial tasks in furtherance of this solicitation.

In connection
with the engagement of Saratoga by Broadwood as a proxy solicitor, Broadwood anticipates that certain employees of Saratoga may communicate
in person, by telephone or otherwise with a limited number of institutions, brokers or other persons who are stockholders of the Company
for the purpose of assisting in the solicitation of proxies for the Special Meeting. It is anticipated that Saratoga will employ approximately
twenty persons to solicit stockholders in connection with the Special Meeting. Broadwood expects to pay Saratoga up to $200,000 for its
services in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Special Meeting.

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What is householding of proxy materials?

The SEC
has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries (such as brokers, banks and other nominees) to satisfy the delivery requirements
for proxy statements with respect to two or more stockholders sharing the same address by delivering a single proxy statement addressed
to those stockholders.