Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 111

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 111
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 owners who assert appraisal rights unless (a) the total number of shares of STAAR common stock held by stockholders or beneficial owners who have become entitled to appraisal rights as determined by the Delaware Court of Chancery exceeds 1% of the outstanding shares eligible for appraisal or (b) the value of the aggregate Merger Consideration for such shares entitled to appraisal exceeds $1 million. Because of the complexity of the procedures for exercising the right to seek appraisal of shares of STAAR common stock, STAAR believes that if a stockholder or beneficial owner is considering exercising appraisal rights, that person should seek the advice of legal counsel. A stockholder or beneficial owner who loses his, her, its or their appraisal rights will be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration as described in the Merger Agreement upon surrender of the certificates that formerly represented such shares of STAAR common stock. Stockholders and beneficial owners wishing to exercise the right to seek an appraisal of their shares of STAAR common stock must fully comply with Section 262, which means doing, among other things, ALL of the following:

| • |     | the person must not submit a proxy or otherwise vote in favor of the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement; |

| • |     | the person must deliver to STAAR a written demand for appraisal before the vote on the adoption of the Merger                                                                                                                                          
 Agreement at the Special Meeting. This written demand for appraisal must be in addition to and separate from any proxy or vote abstaining from or voting against the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement. Voting against or failing to vote for the 
 adoption of the Merger Agreement by itself does not constitute a demand for appraisal within the meaning of Section 262. The demand must reasonably inform STAAR of the identity of the stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, and the        
 intention of such person to demand appraisal of his, her, its or their shares of STAAR common stock. A stockholder’s or beneficial owner’s failure to make a written demand for appraisal before the vote on the adoption of the Merger                
 Agreement at the Special Meeting is taken will constitute a waiver of appraisal rights;                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | the person must continuously hold the shares of STAAR common stock from the date of making the demand through the                                                                                               
 Effective Time (a stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, will lose appraisal rights if such stockholder or beneficial owner transfers the shares of STAAR common stock before the Effective Time); and |

| • |     | the person