Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-258558
Chunk: 31

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 31
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14.0%,
reflecting a mid-point estimate of STAAR’s cost of equity, was $11.75 to $24.40 for STAAR common stock, as compared to the closing share price of the STAAR common stock as of August 1,
2025, of $17.76, and the Merger Consideration of $28.00.

The first sentence of the section titled “—Premia Paid” on page 58 of the proxy statement is hereby supplemented as follows:

Citi calculated, using publicly available information, the median one-day unaffected stock price premia paid for24 acquisition transactions of selected U.S. target public companies announced since January 1, 2015
involving 100% cash consideration with a transaction value over $500 million that Citi deemed appropriate in its professional judgment, which indicated a median one-day unaffected stock price
premium of 26%.

The section titled “Security Ownership of Principal Shareholders and Management” beginning on page 99 of the proxy statement is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

The tables below and the accompanying footnotes show information regarding the
beneficial ownership of STAAR common stock as of September12 October24, 2025, unless otherwise indicated. As of
September12 October24, 2025, STAAR had 49,354,123 49,365,823 shares of common
stock outstanding. The amounts and percentages of STAAR common stock beneficially owned are reported on the basis of regulations of the SEC governing the determination of beneficial ownership of securities. Under SEC rules, a person is deemed to be
a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares voting power or investment power, which includes the power to dispose of (or to direct the disposition of) such security. A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of
any securities that such person has a right to beneficially acquire within 60 days. Securities that can be acquired within 60 days are deemed to be outstanding for purposes of computing such person’s ownership percentage, but not for purposes
of computing any other person’s ownership percentage. Under these rules, more than one person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of the same securities, and a person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of securities as to which such
person has no economic interest.

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The following table shows information concerning the shares of common stock beneficially owned by each person known by STAAR to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of