Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-258558
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
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 please call the technical support number that will be provided on the Special
Meeting website. Technical support will be available beginning approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the Special Meeting through its conclusion.

Additional information regarding related rules of conduct and other materials for the Special Meeting will be available during the Special
Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/STAA2025SM.

You will not be able to attend the Special Meeting physically in person.

Record Date; Shares Entitled to Vote; Quorum

Only stockholders who held shares of STAAR common stock as of the Record Date are entitled to notice of the Special Meeting and to vote at the
Special Meeting. The list of stockholders of record entitled to vote at the Special Meeting will be available for examination during the 10 days before the Special Meeting by any stockholder for any purpose germane to the Special Meeting during
ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the corporation at Office of the Corporate Secretary, STAAR Surgical Company, 25510 Commercentre Drive, Lake Forest, California, 92630. As of the Record Date,
there were 49,354,123 49,365,823 shares of STAAR common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting.

The presence, by remote communication or by proxy of the holders of record of a majority of the STAAR common stock entitled to vote at the
Special Meeting on the Record Date will constitute a quorum at the Special Meeting. In the event that a quorum is not present at the Special Meeting, it is expected that the Special Meeting will be adjourned to solicit additional proxies.

Vote Required; Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes

Each STAAR stockholder will be entitled to one vote for each share of STAAR common stock owned as of the close of business on the Record Date.

The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of STAAR common stock entitled to vote thereon is required to
approve the Merger Proposal. As of the Record Date, 24,677,06224,682,912 shares constitute a majority of the outstanding shares of STAAR common stock.

Assuming a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of the holders of the shares of STAAR common stock representing a majority of the STAAR
common stock present by remote communication or represented by proxy at the Special Meeting and entitled to vote on the Compensation Proposal, is required to approve, on an advisory (nonbinding) basis, the Compensation Proposal.

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