Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 31

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 31
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 Meeting without a legal proxy. Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, STAAR urges you to vote in advance by proxy to ensure your vote is counted. STAAR encourages you to submit your proxy over the Internet or by telephone, in each case as instructed on your WHITE proxy card, both of which are convenient, cost-effective and reliable alternatives to returning a proxy card by mail.You may still attend the virtual Special Meeting and vote during the virtual Special Meeting if you have already voted by proxy. Please be aware that, although there is no charge for voting your shares of STAAR common stock, if you vote electronically over the Internet by visiting the website on your WHITE proxy card or by telephone by calling the phone number on your WHITE proxy card, in each case, you may incur costs such as Internet access and telephone charges for which you will be responsible.

| Q: | What is a proxy? |

| A: | A proxy is a STAAR stockholder’s legal designation of another person to vote shares owned by such                                                                                                                                                         
 stockholder on their behalf. If you are a STAAR stockholder of record, you can vote by proxy over the Internet, by telephone or by mail by following the instructions provided in the enclosed WHITE proxy card. If you hold shares of STAAR common stock 
 beneficially in “street name,” you should follow the voting instructions provided by your bank, broker or other nominee, and you will not be able to vote your shares at the Special Meeting without a legal proxy.                                       |

| Q: | If a STAAR stockholder gives a proxy, how are the shares voted? |

| A: | Regardless of the method you choose to vote, the individuals named on the enclosed WHITE proxy card, or your                                                                                                                                        
 proxies, will vote your shares of STAAR common stock in the way that you indicate. When completing the Internet or telephone process or the WHITE proxy card, you may specify whether your shares should be voted for or against or to abstain from 
 voting on all, some or none of the specific items of business to come before the Special Meeting.                                                                                                                                                   |

If you properly sign your WHITE proxy card, but do not mark one or more of the boxes showing how your shares of STAAR common stock should be voted on one or more particular matters, the shares represented by your properly signed proxy with respect to the unmarked matters will be voted (1) “ FOR” the Merger Proposal and (2) “ FOR” the Compensation Proposal.

| Q: | If my broker holds