Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
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 most updated version of applicable software and plugins installed. STAAR stockholders should ensure that they have a strong Internet connection if they intend to virtually attend the Special Meeting. Attendees should allow sufficient time to access the Special Meeting and ensure that they can hear streaming audio prior to the start of the Special Meeting. Additional information regarding the rules of conduct and other materials for the Special Meeting will be available during the Special Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/[ ]. You will not be able to attend the Special Meeting physically in person.

| Q: | What am I being asked to vote on at the Special Meeting? |

| A: | You are being asked to vote on the following proposals: |

| • |     | to approve the Merger Proposal; and |

| • |     | to approve, on an advisory (nonbinding) basis, the Compensation Proposal. |

| Q: | Who is entitled to vote at the Special Meeting? |

| A: | STAAR stockholders as of the Record Date of [     ], 2025 are entitled to notice of the                                                                                                                                                                
 Special Meeting and to vote at the Special Meeting. Each STAAR stockholder will be entitled to cast one vote on each matter properly brought before the Special Meeting for each such share owned at the close of business on the Record Date. Virtual 
 attendance at the Special Meeting via the Special Meeting website is not required to vote.                                                                                                                                                             |

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| Q: | How does the Merger Consideration compare to the market price of STAAR common stock prior to the 
 announcement of the Merger Agreement?                                                            |

| A: | The Merger Consideration of $28.00 per share represents a premium of approximately 59% to the 90-day volume weighted average price of STAAR common stock at the time the Merger Agreement was announced on August 4, 2025, and approximately 51% premium to the closing price of STAAR common stock on 
 August 4, 2025. The closing price of STAAR common stock on NASDAQ on [ ], 2025, the most recent practicable date prior to the date of this proxy statement, was $[ ]. You are encouraged to obtain current market prices of STAAR common stock                                                         
 in connection with voting your shares of STAAR common stock.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

| Q: | May I attend and vote at the Special Meeting? |

| A: | All STAAR stockholders as of the Record Date may attend the