Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 99

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 99
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 performance may be affected by its ability to successfully implement a number of initiatives to improve its operations and financial performance and its ability to achieve strategic goals, objectives and targets over
the applicable periods.

Because the financial projections reflect subjective judgment in many respects, they are susceptible to multiple
interpretations and frequent revisions based on actual experience and business developments. The financial projections also cover multiple years, and such information by its nature becomes less predictive with each succeeding year. The estimates and
assumptions underlying the financial projections involve judgments with respect to, among other things, economic, competitive and financial market conditions and future business decisions that may not be realized and that are inherently subject to
significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, including, among other things, the inherent uncertainty of the business and economic conditions affecting the industries in which STAAR operates. The financial
projections constitute forward-looking information and are subject to a wide variety of significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the financial projections. For additional information on
factors that may cause STAAR’s future financial results to materially vary from the financial projections summarized below, see the section entitled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Accordingly, there can
be no assurance that the financial projections summarized below will be realized or that actual results will not differ materially from the financial projections summarized below, and the financial projections cannot be considered a guarantee of
future operating results and should not be relied upon as such. Neither STAAR nor its affiliates nor advisors nor any other person has made any representation to any of STAAR’s stockholders or any other person regarding STAAR’s actual
performance compared to the results included in the financial projections, nor has STAAR made any representation to Alcon or its affiliates, in the Merger Agreement or otherwise, concerning the financial projections.

The financial projections should be evaluated, if at all, in conjunction with the historical financial statements and other information
contained in STAAR’s public filings with the SEC. For more information about STAAR’s actual results and historical financial information, see “Where You Can Find More Information.”

The financial projections contain certain non-GAAP financial measures and were not prepared with a
view toward compliance with GAAP or published guidelines of the SEC. The SEC rules that would otherwise require a reconciliation of a non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial
measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP do not apply to non-GAAP financial measures included in a disclosure relating to a proposed business combination such as the Mer