Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-090869
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form: DEFC14A
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 AGAINST” the Merger Agreement Proposal to make sure that their voices are heard and that there can be no doubt that stockholders stand in clear opposition to the Proposed Merger.

We urge you to vote today using our GREENProxy Card. If you have already voted using the Company’s
proxy card, you have every right to change your vote by (i) completing, signing, dating and returning a later dated GREEN
Proxy Card, (ii) voting via the Internet or by telephone by following the instructions on the enclosed GREEN
Proxy Card or (iii) attending the Special Meeting and voting your shares online. Only the latest validly executed proxy card that you
submit will be counted; any proxy card may be revoked at any time prior to its exercise at the Special Meeting by following the instructions
under “Can I change my vote or revoke my proxy?” in the “Questions and Answers About the Proxy Materials and Special
Meeting” section of this Proxy Statement.

If you have
any questions or require any assistance with voting your shares, please contact our proxy solicitor, Saratoga, by calling (212) 257-1311
or toll free at (888) 368-0379, or by email at info@saratogaproxy.com.

<div align='center'>WE URGE YOU TO VOTE “ AGAINST” THE MERGER AGREEMENT PROPOSAL, AND WE INTEND TO VOTE OUR SHARES “ AGAINST” THIS PROPOSAL.</div>

| 30 | See the Company’s Q1 2025 Earnings Call, available at https://investors.staar.com/~/media/Files/S/staar-surgical/investors/quarter-report/staar-surgical- 
 costaa-us-q1-2025-earnings-call-07052025.pdf (May 7, 2025).                                                                                               |

| 31 | Id. |

| 32 | Id. |

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PROPOSAL 2

COMPENSATION PROPOSAL</div>

You are
being asked by the Company to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company’s
named executive officers in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby. For the reasons discussed
in the above section titled “Reasons to Vote Against the Merger Agreement Proposal”, we OPPOSE the Proposed Merger.
To that end, we are soliciting your proxy to vote “AGAINST” the Compensation Proposal