Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-311988
Chunk: 8

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-12-09
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 8
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“Ultimate Parent Ordinary Shares.“” means the ordinary shares, nominal value CHF 0.04 per share, of Ultimate Parent.”

(f) Item 12 under
“Employee/Benefits Related Interim Operating Covenant Exceptions” in Section 5.2(a)-(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule is amended by deleting clause (ii) of the second sentence thereof and replacing it with the following
language:

“; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company may not provide any
gross-ups or other tax indemnification arrangements for any Taxes incurred under Section 4999 of the Code.”

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2. . On and after the date of this
Amendment, each reference in the Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof,” or words of like import, and all documents delivered in connection with the Agreement shall mean and be a reference to the
Agreement as amended hereby. Each reference in the Agreement to “the date hereof,” “the date of this Agreement,” or words of like import shall mean and be a reference to August 4, 2025. Except as expressly amended by
this Amendment, the Agreement shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms, and the Agreement, as amended hereby, is hereby confirmed and ratified in all respects. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment
shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the parties under the Agreement or any of the documents delivered in connection with the Agreement.

3. . This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which is an original, and all of which, when
taken together, constitute one Amendment. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or other customary means of electronic transmission (e.g., “pdf”) will be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart hereof.

4. . This Amendment, and all claims or causes of action (whether in contract or tort) that may be
based upon, arise out of or relate to this Amendment, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Amendment, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the state of Delaware, without giving effect to the principles
of conflicts of law thereof.

5. . Immediately following the execution of this Amendment, Parent, as the sole
stockholder of Merger Sub, shall adopt the Agreement, this Amendment and the Transactions, including the Merger