Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-087448
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-15
Form: PREC14A
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 the Special Meeting by visiting [●].

As set forth more fully in
this Proxy Statement, we OPPOSE the Proposed Merger and urge fellow stockholders to vote “AGAINST” the Proposed
Merger because we believe the Board ran a deficient sale process at a suboptimal time, which resulted in the Proposed Merger that significantly
undervalues the Company.

We are soliciting proxies
from the Company’s stockholders to vote “AGAINST” the following Proposed Merger proposals (together, the “Merger
Proposals”) to:

| 1. | approve the Proposed Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Merger 
 Agreement Proposal”); and                                                                                |

| 2. | approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the                                   
 Company’s named executive officers in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby (the “Compensation 
 Proposal”).                                                                                                                             |

The Company has set the record
date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting as close of business on [●] (the “Record
Date”). Stockholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date will be entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. As of
[●], there were [●] shares of Common Stock outstanding according to the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on [●] (the “Company’s proxy statement”).
The principal executive offices of the Company are located at 25510 Commercentre Drive, Lake Forest, California 92630.

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As of the date hereof, Broadwood
beneficially owned an aggregate of approximately 13,566,677 shares of Common Stock, representing approximately 27.4% of the Common Stock
outstanding, making us the Company’s largest stockholder.

We intend to vote our shares
“AGAINST” each of the Merger Proposals. We urge you to complete, sign, date and promptly return the enclosed GREENProxy Card voting “ AGAINST” the Merger Proposals.

This proxy solicitation is
being made by Broadwood Partners and the other “Participants” named in , and not on behalf of the Board
or management of the Company, or any other third party. Other than as described in this Proxy Statement, we are not aware of any other
matters to