Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 138

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 138
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, amend, or terminate any collective bargaining agreement; |

| • |     | waive, release or adversely amend or knowingly fail to enforce the restrictive covenant obligations in any        
 contracts with current or former officers, directors, employees, independent contractors or consultants of STAAR; |

| • |     | (i) initiate any new clinical trial (excluding investigator-initiated trials) or (ii) except if ordered by a                                                                                                                                  
 regulatory authority, terminate, undertake a protocol amendment for, or materially modify an existing agreement with a contract research organization relating to, or otherwise materially impede the conduct of, any ongoing clinical trial; |

| • |     | voluntarily terminate, withdraw or let lapse the terms of any material permit, license, certification or other 
 governmental authorization;                                                                                    |

| • |     | fail to use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain existing insurance policies or to renew or replace such 
 insurance policies on terms no less favorable in the aggregate;                                                 |

| • |     | materially change any financial accounting methods or practices, except as required by GAAP or other applicable 
 law;                                                                                                            |

| • |     | adopt a plan or agreement of complete or partial liquidation or dissolution, merger, consolidation, 
 restructuring, recapitalization, or other reorganization of STAAR or any of its subsidiaries; or    |

| • |     | authorize any of, or agree or commit to take, any of the actions described above. |

Non Solicitation; Window Shop Period During the Pre-ClosingPeriod, STAAR has agreed that it and its subsidiaries will not, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its representatives not to, directly or indirectly:

| • |     | continue any solicitation, knowing encouragement, discussions or negotiations with any persons that may be 
 ongoing as of the date of the Merger Agreement with respect to an Acquisition Proposal (as defined below); |

| • |     | (i) solicit, initiate, knowingly facilitate or encourage (including by way of furnishing non-public information) any inquiries regarding or the making of any proposal or offer that constitutes, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition Proposal, (ii) engage in, continue or 
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| participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any other person any non-public information in connection with, or for the purpose                                                                                              
 of soliciting or knowingly encouraging or facilitating, an Acquisition Proposal or any proposal or offer that would reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal (other than to state that