Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 52

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 52
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 lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries
each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases, and refractive errors.

Rascasse Merger Sub, Inc.

c/o Alcon Research, LLC

6201 South Freeway

Fort Worth, Texas 76134

Merger Sub is a
Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcon. Merger Sub was incorporated on July 28, 2025 and has not engaged in any business activities other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

The principal executive offices of Merger Sub are located at 6201 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76134, and its telephone number is (817) 293-0450.

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Certain Effects of the Merger On the terms and subject to the conditions of the Merger Agreement, and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL, at the Effective Time, Merger Sub will merge with and into STAAR, as a result of which the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub will cease and STAAR will continue its corporate existence under the DGCL as the Surviving Corporation of the Merger. As a result of the Merger, STAAR will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcon, and STAAR common stock will no longer be publicly traded and will be delisted from NASDAQ. In addition, following the Merger, it is expected that STAAR common stock will be deregistered under the Exchange Act and STAAR will no longer file periodic or other reports with the SEC. If the Merger is consummated, you will not own any shares of the capital stock of the Surviving Corporation. For more information, please see the sections of this proxy statement titled “ —Merger Consideration—Common Stock” and “ —Merger Consideration—Treatment of STAAR Long-Term Incentive Awards.” STAAR stockholders who properly and validly exercise and do not withdraw their demands for appraisal will have appraisal rights under Section 262. For more information, see “ —Appraisal Rights.” The Effective Time will occur at such time as the certificate of merger meeting the requirements of Section 251 of the DGCL relating to the Merger has been duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the DGCL, or at such later time as may be agreed by the parties and specified in the certificate of merger in accordance with the DGCL. Effect