Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 155

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 155
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 order, decree, ruling or other action (the “Restraint Termination Right”);                                                                                                         |

| • |     | by Alcon, prior to receipt of the Stockholder Approval, if the Board has failed to include the Board 
 Recommendation in this proxy statement when mailed, or has effected a Recommendation Change;         |

| • |     | by STAAR, prior to receipt of the Stockholder Approval, in order to accept a Superior Offer and substantially                                                                                          
 concurrently enter into a binding written definitive acquisition agreement providing for the consummation of a transaction that constitutes a Superior Offer (the “Superior Offer Termination Right”); |

| • |     | by STAAR or Alcon, if the other party (including Merger Sub in the case of STAAR’s termination right) has                                                                                                                                                
 breached a representation or warranty contained in the Merger Agreement or failed to perform any covenant or obligation in the Merger Agreement has occurred, such that the conditions providing that the other party’s representations and              
 warranties are accurate and that it has performed and complied with, in all material respects, its obligations under the Merger Agreement would not be satisfied and cannot be cured by the other party by the End Date, or if capable of being cured in 
 such                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

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| time period, is not cured within thirty (30) business days of the terminating party providing notice to the other party of such breach or failure to perform, provided that the terminating                      
 party is not in breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or obligation of the Merger Agreement which would permit the other party to terminate the Merger Agreement (the “Breach Termination Right”); or |

| • |     | by STAAR or Alcon if the Stockholder Approval has not been obtained because of the failure to obtain the required 
 vote upon a final vote taken thereon at the Special Meeting (and any adjournment or postponement thereof).        |

If the Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with the termination rights discussed immediately above, certain sections of the Merger Agreement will survive the termination of the Merger Agreement in full force and effect in accordance with their terms, including terms relating to confidentiality, termination, expenses and termination fees, and other miscellaneous items. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in the Merger Agreement will relieve any party from liability for fraud or willful breach of any of its representations, warranties, covenants, or agreements set forth in the Merger Agreement, and no such termination will relieve Alcon or