Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
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 vote during the virtual Special Meeting if you have already voted by proxy. Please be aware that, although there is no charge for voting your shares of STAAR common stock, if you vote electronically over the Internet by visiting the website on your proxy card or by telephone by calling the phone number on your proxy card, in each case, you may incur costs such as Internet access and telephone charges for which you will be responsible.

| Q: | What is a proxy? |

| A: | A proxy is a STAAR stockholder’s legal designation of another person to vote shares owned by such                                                                                                                                                   
 stockholder on their behalf. If you are a STAAR stockholder of record, you can vote by proxy over the Internet, by telephone or by mail by following the instructions provided in the enclosed proxy card. If you hold shares of STAAR common stock 
 beneficially in “street name,” you should follow the voting instructions provided by your bank, broker or other nominee.                                                                                                                            |

| Q: | If a STAAR stockholder gives a proxy, how are the shares voted? |

| A: | Regardless of the method you choose to vote, the individuals named on the enclosed proxy card, or your proxies,                                                                                                                                          
 will vote your shares of STAAR common stock in the way that you indicate. When completing the Internet or telephone process or the proxy card, you may specify whether your shares should be voted for or against or to abstain from voting on all, some 
 or none of the specific items of business to come before the Special Meeting.                                                                                                                                                                            |

If you properly sign your proxy card, but do not mark one or more of the boxes showing how your shares of STAAR common stock should be voted on one or more particular matters, the shares represented by your properly signed proxy with respect to the unmarked matters will be voted (1) “ FOR” the Merger Proposal and (2) “ FOR” the Compensation Proposal.

| Q: | If my broker holds my shares in “street name,” will my broker vote my shares for me? |

| A: | No. Your bank, broker or other nominee is permitted to vote your shares of STAAR common stock on any proposal                                                                                                                                    
 currently scheduled to be considered at the Special Meeting only if you instruct your bank, broker or other nominee on how to vote. You should follow the procedures provided by your bank, broker or other nominee to vote your shares. Without 
 instructions, your shares of STAAR common stock will not be voted                                                                                                                                                                                |

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