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

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 25
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 reiterated its intent to engage with STAAR stockholders during the go-shopperiod to understand their perspectives on the Merger Proposal. In addition, the Board considered the potential need to reset the record date, including if the parties implemented a go-shopperiod. Mr. Farrell noted that a significant number of shares of STAAR common stock had been sold by stockholders following the record date of September 12, 2025 which, as a result, would make them disinterested in and economically indifferent to the outcome of the Merger Proposal and thus less likely to exercise their voting rights at the Special Meeting, and that stockholders who had purchased STAAR shares after the September 12, 2025 record date were disenfranchised and unable to vote at the Special Meeting. The Board considered potential benefits and detriments to engaging in a go-shopprocess at that time, as well as the views expressed by the Broadwood Group and Yunqi Capital Limited, which were not supportive of such a process. Following discussions, the Board determined not to accept Alcon’s proposal to amend the terms of the Merger Agreement without a concurrent commitment to increase the Merger Consideration, instructed STAAR’s management to engage in further discussions with Alcon and authorized management to (i) reset the record date for the Special Meeting to the close of business on October 24, 2025 and (ii) in order to comply with applicable advance notice requirements relating to the change in record date, postpone the Special Meeting until December 3, 2025 and provide a new notice of the Special Meeting to STAAR stockholders. After the meeting, Mr. Farrell communicated the Board’s decision to Mr. Endicott, and Alcon provided its consent to resetting the record date and postponing the meeting date.

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On October 27, 2025, STAAR issued a press release announcing that the Special Meeting had been postponed to 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time on December 3, 2025, and the record date had been reset on October 24, 2025 to be the close of business on October 24, 2025, in light of ongoing discussions with Alcon. (8) Supplements to “Opinion of STAAR’s Financial Advisor” The section titled “Opinion of STAAR’s Financial Advisors—Selected Public Companies Analyses” beginning on page 55 of the proxy statement is hereby amended and supplemented as follows: Citi reviewed certain publicly available financial and stock market information of STAAR and