Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 112

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 112
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, another stockholder or beneficial owner who has properly demanded appraisal rights and is otherwise                                                                                                                                           
 entitled to appraisal rights or the Surviving Corporation must file a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery requesting a determination of the fair value of the shares of STAAR common stock within 120 days after the Effective Time. The Surviving 
 Corporation is under no obligation to file any petition and has no intention of doing so.                                                                                                                                                                 |

If you fail to comply with any of these conditions and the Merger is completed, then you will be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, but you will have no appraisal rights with respect to your shares of STAAR common stock. Making a Written Demand Any stockholder or beneficial owner wishing to exercise appraisal rights must deliver to STAAR, before the vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the Special Meeting, a written demand for the appraisal of the stockholder’s or beneficial owner’s shares of STAAR common stock. The person making the written demand must be a stockholder of record or a beneficial owner, as applicable, on the date the written demand for appraisal is made, and such person must continue to hold or beneficially own, respectively, the shares of STAAR common stock as to which such demand relates through the effective date of the Merger. A person wishing to exercise appraisal rights must not vote or submit a proxy in favor of the proposal to adopt of the Merger Agreement either during the Special Meeting or by proxy. In the case of a holder of record -68-

of shares of STAAR common stock, a proxy that is submitted and does not contain voting instructions will, unless revoked, be voted in favor of the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement, and it
will cause a stockholder to lose such stockholder’s right to appraisal and will nullify any previously delivered written demand for appraisal. Therefore, a stockholder who submits a proxy and who wishes to exercise appraisal rights must submit
a proxy containing instructions to vote against the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement or abstain from voting on the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the Special Meeting. In the case of a beneficial owner, broker, bank, trust or other
nominees that hold shares of STAAR common stock in “street name” for their customers do not have discretionary authority to vote those shares of STAAR common stock on the adoption of the Merger Agreement without specific voting
instructions from the beneficial owner on such proposal, but such broker, bank, trust or other nominees will vote such shares