Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 61
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 disclosure: (i) would jeopardize any attorney-client or other legal privilege in the reasonable judgment of the Company (so long as the Acquired Corporations have used commercially reasonable efforts to permit such inspection of or to
disclose such information on a basis that does not waive such privilege with respect thereto), (ii) would contravene any applicable Legal Requirement or constitute a breach of any Contract to which it is a party or by which it is bound (so long
as the Acquired Corporations have used commercially reasonable efforts to permit disclosure to the extent permitted by Legal Requirements or such Contract), (iii) relates to a litigation where the Company or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand,
and Parent or any of its Affiliates, on the other hand, are adverse parties, (iv) subject to, and without limiting, the requirements of and , specifically relates to the
negotiation and execution of this Agreement or to transactions potentially competing with or alternative to the Transactions or proposals from other third parties relating to any competing or alternative transactions (including Acquisition
Proposals), including any actions of the Board of Directors (or any committee thereof) with respect to any of the foregoing, whether prior to or after the execution of this Agreement, (v) would reasonably be expected to result in the disclosure
of Trade Secrets or other commercially sensitive information, or (vi) involves any invasive sampling, testing or investigation of water, groundwater, soil, sediment, soil vapor, air, or other environmental media at any of the Leased Real
Property. With respect to the information disclosed pursuant to this , Parent shall comply with, and shall cause Parent’s Representatives to comply with, all obligations under the Confidentiality Agreement,
dated October 4, 2024, between the Company

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and Alcon Vision, LLC (the “”), and the Clean Team Agreement, dated November 15, 2024, between the Company and Alcon Vision, LLC (the “”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may as it reasonably deems advisable and necessary (after consultation with its outside legal counsel) designate any commercially or competitively sensitive materials provided
pursuant to this as (i) “Outside Counsel Only”, in which case such materials and the information contained therein shall be given to the outside counsel of Parent and will not be disclosed by such
outside counsel to employees, officers, or directors of Parent or its Subsidiaries without the advance written consent from the Company or its legal counsel, or (ii