Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 159

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 159
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 without indicating voting preferences on such WHITE proxy card, the shares of STAAR common stock
represented by that proxy will be counted as present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum for the Special Meeting, and all of such shares of STAAR common stock will be voted as recommended by the Board.

The Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the Compensation Proposal.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS AND MANAGEMENT The tables below and the accompanying footnotes show information regarding the beneficial ownership of STAAR common stock as of September 12, 2025, unless otherwise indicated. As of September 12, 2025, STAAR had 49,354,123 shares of common stock outstanding. The amounts and percentages of STAAR common stock beneficially owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities. Under SEC rules, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares voting power or investment power, which includes the power to dispose of (or to direct the disposition of) such security. A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities that such person has a right to beneficially acquire within 60 days. Securities that can be acquired within 60 days are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s ownership percentage, but not for purposes of computing any other person’s ownership percentage. Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of the same securities, and a person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities as to which such person has no economic interest. The following table shows information concerning the shares of common stock beneficially owned by each person known by STAAR to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of STAAR common stock (other than directors and executive officers). This information is based on publicly available information filed with the SEC as of August 28, 2025.

| Name and Address                                     |     | Shares       
 Beneficially 
 Owned        |            |     | Percent of 
 Class(1)   |      |   |
| Broadwood Partners, L.P.(2)                          
 C/O Broadwood Capital, Inc.                          
 156 W 56th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019      |     |              | 13,545,391 |     |            | 27.4 | % |
| BlackRock, Inc.(3