Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 84

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 84
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 predecessors. Such service credit shall be applied to any applicable waiting periods or vesting provisions of
Parent’s U.S. defined contribution retirement plans. As soon as practicable following the Closing, the account balances under the Company 401(k) Plan shall be distributed to the participants, and Parent shall permit such Continuing Employees to
make rollover contributions to the Parent 401(k) Plan of “eligible rollover distributions” within the meaning of Section 401(a)(31) of the Code (excluding promissory notes evidencing participant loans) in the form of cash, in an
amount equal to the full account balance distributed to such Continuing Employee from the Company 401(k) Plan. All resolutions adopted or executed in connection with the termination of the Company 401(k) Plan shall be subject to Parent’s prior
review and comment, and all reasonable comments of Parent will be considered by the Company in good faith.

6.5 Indemnification of Officers and Directors.

(a) For a period of six (6) years from and after the Effective Time, Parent agrees that all rights to
indemnification, advancement of expenses and exculpation from liabilities for acts or omissions occurring at or prior to the Effective Time (whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time) now existing in favor of the current
or former directors or officers of any Acquired Corporation pursuant to the organizational documents thereof and any indemnification or other similar agreements of any Acquired Corporation, in each case as in effect on the date of this Agreement,
shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms and shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified in any manner that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of any of such current or former directors or officers,
except to the extent required by applicable Legal Requirements, and Parent shall cause the Acquired Corporations to perform their respective obligations thereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, during the period commencing at the Effective Time
and ending on the sixth (6th) anniversary of the Effective Time, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation and its Subsidiaries to indemnify and hold harmless each individual who is as of the date of this Agreement, or who becomes prior to the
Effective Time, a director or officer of any Acquired Corporation or who is as of the date of this Agreement, or who thereafter commences prior to the Effective Time, serving at the request of any Acquired Corporation as a director or officer of
another Person (the “”), against