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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 the effect of any business or
strategic decision or action that has been or will be taken as a result of the Merger Agreement having been executed or in anticipation of the Merger, or the effect of any alteration, acceleration, postponement or decision not to take any business
or strategic decisions or actions which would likely have been taken if the Merger Agreement had not been executed but which were instead altered, accelerated, postponed or not taken in anticipation of Merger. Further, the financial projections do
not take into account the effect of any failure of the Merger to be consummated and should not be viewed as accurate or continuing in that context. Although the July Diligence Projections were presented to the Board in connection with its review of
the Projections, only the Projections were approved by STAAR for Citi’s use and reliance, and were used and relied upon by Citi, in connection with its financial analysis and fairness opinion.

The financial projections were not intended for public disclosure, and, accordingly, do not necessarily comply with, nor were they prepared
with a view toward compliance with, the published guidelines of the SEC, the guidelines established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for preparation and presentation of financial forecasts or generally accepted accounting
principles, or GAAP (and do not include footnote disclosures as may be required by GAAP). Neither STAAR’s independent auditors, nor any other independent accountants, have compiled, examined, or performed any procedures with respect to the
financial projections contained herein, nor have they expressed any opinion or any other form of assurance on such information or its achievability, and they assume no responsibility for, and disclaim any association with, the financial projections.
A summary of the financial projections is included in this proxy statement only because they were made available to the Board, Citi or Alcon, as applicable, as described in this proxy statement, and are not included in this proxy statement to
influence a STAAR stockholder’s decision whether to vote to adopt the Merger Agreement or for any other purpose. The inclusion of the financial projections in this proxy statement does not constitute an admission or representation by STAAR
that the information contained therein is material information nor should the inclusion be regarded as an indication that STAAR or anyone else then considered, or now considers, such summaries to be necessarily predictive of actual future events,
and this information should not be relied upon as such. In light of the foregoing, STAAR’s stockholders are cautioned not to