Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
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 Group”) have filed a preliminary 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), we ask that you recast your vote as instructed on the WHITE proxy card mailed to you by STAAR, 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 October 22, 2025. Whether or not you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, please sign, date and return, as promptly as possible, the enclosed WHITE proxy card in the accompanying prepaid reply envelope or grant your proxy electronically over the Internet or by telephone (in accordance with the instructions detailed in “ The Special Meeting—Voting at the Special Meeting”). 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 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.

| By Order of the Board,    |
| Stephen C. Farrell        |
| Chief Executive Officer   |
| Dated: September 16, 2025 |

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YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT

WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE SPECIAL MEETING, STAAR ENCOURAGES YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR PROXY AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE: (1)BY TELEPHONE AS INSTRUCTED ON YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD; (2)OVER THE INTERNET AS INSTRUCTED ON YOUR WHITE PROXY CARD; OR (3)BY SIGNING AND DATING THE ENCLOSE