Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 120

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 120
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 required or specifically permitted to be taken by any Acquired Corporation pursuant to this Agreement; |

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| (viii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from the identity of, or any facts                                                                                                                                       
 or circumstances relating to, Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates, including the impact thereof on the relationships, contractual or otherwise, of the Acquired Corporations with any employees, Labor Organization, financing 
 sources, customers, distributors, suppliers, partners, Governmental Bodies or other business relationships;                                                                                                                                         |

| (ix) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect arising directly or indirectly from or otherwise relating                                                                                               
 to any change in, or any compliance with or action taken for the purpose of complying with any change in, any Legal Requirement or GAAP (or interpretations or enforcement of any Legal Requirement or GAAP); |

| (x) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any actual or potential                                                            
 sequester, stoppage, shutdown, default or similar event or occurrence by or involving any Governmental Body affecting a national or federal government as a whole; |

| (xi) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from changes in anti-dumping 
 actions, international tariffs, trade policies, sanctions, Legal Requirements, or any “trade wars”;     |

| (xii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any Stockholder Litigation; or |

| (xiii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any breach by Parent or Merger 
 Sub of this Agreement; or                                                                                      |

| (xiv) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any matter disclosed in Section 
 B of the Company Disclosure Schedule;                                                                           |

providedthat if any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect referred to in the foregoing clauses (iii), (iv), (v), ( ix), (x)and (xi)has had, or would be reasonably expected to have, a disproportionate and adverse effect on the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole, relative to other medical device companies in similar geographies in which the Acquired Corporations operate, then the incremental disproportionate adverse effect (and only the incremental disproportionate adverse effect) may be taken into account in determining whether a Company Material Adverse Effect has occurred. Material Contract. “ Material Contract