Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-090869
Chunk: 2

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form: DEFC14A
Chunk 2
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SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS

OF

STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY

PROXY STATEMENT

OF

BROADWOOD PARTNERS, L.P.

DATED SEPTEMBER 24, 2025</div>

Broadwood
Partners, L.P. (“Broadwood Partners” and collectively with its affiliates and the other Participants in this solicitation,
“Broadwood” or “we”), owns, collectively with the other Participants, an aggregate of approximately 13,566,677
shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of STAAR Surgical Company, a Delaware corporation
(the “Company” or “STAAR”), representing approximately 27.5% of the Common Stock outstanding, making us the Company’s
largest stockholder. This Proxy Statement and the enclosed GREENProxy Card are first
being sent or given to stockholders on September 24, 2025.

We are writing
to our fellow stockholders in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company (the “Proposed Merger”) by Alcon Research,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Alcon”). In connection with the Proposed Merger, the Company entered into an Agreement
and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 4, 2025 (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among
the Company, Alcon and Rascasse Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcon (“Merger Sub”).
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company surviving as a direct, wholly owned
subsidiary of Alcon.

The Board
of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has scheduled a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of voting upon the
Merger Agreement (including any adjournments, postponements, reschedulings or continuations thereof, the “Special Meeting”).
The Special Meeting is scheduled to be held virtually via live webcast on October 23, 2025, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Stockholders
will be able to virtually attend the Special Meeting and vote at the Special Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/STAA2025SM.

As set
forth more fully in this Proxy Statement, we OPPOSEthe Proposed Mer