Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 63

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 63
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 obligations with respect to Company Options, Company RSU Awards or Company PSU Awards or (C) enter into or adopt any “poison pill” or similar stockholder rights plan;

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(ii) split, combine, subdivide or reclassify any Shares or other equity interests, except
for any such transaction by a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company which remains a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company after consummation of such transaction;

(iii) sell, issue, grant, deliver, pledge, transfer, encumber or authorize the sale, issuance, grant, delivery, pledge, transfer or
encumbrance of (A) any capital stock, equity interest or other security of any Acquired Corporation, or Voting Company Debt, (B) any option, call, warrant, restricted securities or right to acquire any capital stock, equity interest or
other security of any Acquired Corporation, or Voting Company Debt, or (C) any instrument convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock, equity interest or other security of any Acquired Corporation, or Voting Company Debt;
provided, however, the Company and the other Acquired Corporations (1) may issue Shares as required to be issued upon the exercise or vesting of Company Options, Company RSU Awards, and Company PSU Awards that, in each case, are
outstanding as of the date of this Agreement (or granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof) and as required pursuant to the terms of such awards as in effect on the date of this Agreement (or to the terms of such
awards granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof), and (2) may issue capital stock, equity interests, voting securities or Voting Company Debt solely to the Company or from any Acquired Corporation other than
the Company to the Company’s wholly owned Subsidiaries;

(iv) except as set forth in the Company Disclosure Schedule, as
contemplated by or as required under any Employee Plan as in effect on the date of this Agreement, (A) establish, adopt, enter into, terminate or materially amend any Employee Plan, (B) amend or waive
any of its rights under, or accelerate the vesting or payment under, any provision of any Employee Plan, (C) grant or increase any severance, transaction, retention or termination pay to any current or former employee, officer, director or
independent contractor of any of the Acquired Corporations, (D