Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 154

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 154
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 will have been accurate as of such earlier date);                                                                                                                                     |

| • |     | all other representations and warranties of Alcon and Merger Sub set forth in the Merger Agreement being                                                                                                                         
 accurate, disregarding for such purposes all qualifications of “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” contained in such representations and warranties, as of the date of the Merger Agreement and as of the Closing Date as 
 if made as of such date (except for those representations and warranties which                                                                                                                                                   |

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| address matters only as of an earlier date which will have been true and correct as of such earlier date), except where the failure to be so true and correct has not had, and would not reasonably                                                     
 be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, the effect of materially adversely affecting, or materially delaying or impairing, the ability of Alcon or Merger Sub to perform their obligations under the Merger Agreement and consummate the 
 transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement on or before the End Date;                                                                                                                                                                            |

| • |     | Alcon and Merger Sub having performed or complied with, in all material respects, the covenants and agreements 
 required to be performed by Alcon or Merger Sub under the Merger Agreement prior to the Closing Date; and      |

| • |     | the receipt by STAAR of an officer’s certificate of Alcon, certifying that the conditions described in the 
 preceding three (3) bullets have been satisfied.                                                           |

Termination of the Merger Agreement The Merger Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated thereby may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time:

| • |     | by mutual written consent of Alcon and STAAR; |

| • |     | by either Alcon or STAAR: |

| • |     | if a final and nonappealable order or action by specified governmental bodies having the effect of permanently                                                                                                                                    
 restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the Merger or making the consummation of the Merger illegal; provided, however, that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement in accordance with the foregoing will not be 
 available to any party (i) whose breach of the Merger Agreement has proximately caused the issuance of such final and nonappealable order, decree, ruling or other action, or (ii) that has failed to use its reasonable best efforts as          
 required by Section 6.2 of the Merger Agreement to remove such