Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-258558
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 5
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 virtual means. The Board has unanimously recommended that you vote (1) “FOR” the Merger Proposal and (2) “FOR” the Compensation Proposal. Broadwood Partners, L.P. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, “Broadwood Group”) have filed a definitive proxy statement in connection with the Special Meeting. We recommend that STAAR stockholders disregard any proxy card sent to them by or on behalf of any person other than STAAR, including any green proxy card and solicitation materials that may be sent to STAAR stockholders by or on behalf of Broadwood Group. If you have submitted such a proxy card (including a green proxy card), or if you previously voted on the original form of WHITE proxy card for the Special Meeting originally scheduled for October 23, 2025, we ask that you recast your vote as instructed on the enclosed updated WHITE proxy card, which will revoke any earlier dated proxy card that you submitted. Only the last validly executed proxy that you submit will be counted and such proxy will be counted only if it has been received by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on December 2, 2025. 3

Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, please sign, date and return,
as promptly as possible, the enclosed updated WHITE proxy card in the accompanying prepaid reply envelope or grant your proxy electronically over the Internet. If you attend the virtual Special Meeting and vote thereat, your vote will revoke any
proxy that you have previously submitted. If you hold your shares of STAAR common stock in “street name,” you should instruct your bank, broker or other nominee how to vote your shares in accordance with the voting instructions that you
will receive from your bank, broker or other nominee. Your bank, broker or other nominee cannot vote on any of the proposals, including the Merger Proposal, without your instructions, and you will not be able to vote your shares at the Special
Meeting without a legal proxy. If you sign, date and mail your updated WHITE proxy card without indicating how you wish to vote, your proxy will be counted as a vote “FOR” the Merger Proposal and “FOR” the
Compensation Proposal.

If you have any questions concerning the Merger Agreement, the Merger, the Special Meeting or the accompanying
proxy statement, would like additional copies of the accompanying proxy statement or need help voting your shares of STAAR common stock, please contact STAAR’s proxy solicitor:

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