Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 126

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 126
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 MATTERS AND THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER TO THEM IN LIGHT OF THEIR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Regulatory Approvals Required for the Merger

General

The consummation of the Merger is conditioned on and cannot be completed until the parties receive certain regulatory approvals and clearances.
The parties have agreed to cooperate with each other and use their reasonable best efforts to make filings in connection with these approvals and clearances as promptly as practicable and to take, or cause to be taken, and to do, or cause to be
done, and to assist and cooperate with each other in doing, all things

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necessary, proper or advisable, to consummate and make effective the Merger as promptly as practicable, but in no case later than the End Date (as defined in “The Merger Agreement—Termination of the Merger Agreement”), subject to certain limitations. See“The Merger Agreement—Efforts to Close the Merger.”

There can be no assurance that all of the required regulatory approvals that might be required to consummate the Merger will be obtained and,
if obtained, there can be no assurance as to the timing of any such approvals, the parties’ ability to obtain the approvals on satisfactory terms, or that such regulatory bodies or private parties will not seek to take legal action to enjoin
the completion of the Merger, seek divestiture of substantial assets of the parties, or require the parties to license or hold separate assets or terminate existing relationships and contractual rights. Although Alcon and STAAR do not believe the
Merger violates the antitrust or foreign investment laws in any jurisdiction, there can be no assurance that a challenge to the Merger on such grounds will not be made or, if such a challenge is made, that it would not be successful.

Required Regulatory Approvals

The consummation of the Merger is subject to the HSR Act. A transaction notifiable under the HSR Act may not be completed until the expiration
or termination of a 30-day waiting period following the parties’ filings of their HSR Act notification and report forms. If the FTC or the DOJ issues a Second Request prior to the expiration of the
initial waiting period, the parties must observe a second 30-day waiting period, which would begin to run only after the parties have substantially complied with the Second Request, unless the waiting period
is terminated earlier or the parties otherwise agree to extend the waiting period. The parties made the filings required under the HSR Act