Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 46

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 46
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 If you indicate on your WHITE proxy card that you wish to vote in favor of the Merger Proposal but do not indicate a choice on the Compensation Proposal, your shares of STAAR common stock will be voted “ FOR” each such proposal. WHITE proxy cards that are returned without a signature will not be counted as present at the Special Meeting and cannot be voted. If your shares of STAAR common stock are registered directly in your name with STAAR’s transfer agent, Equiniti, you are considered a stockholder of record with respect to those shares. Some stockholders hold shares of STAAR common stock through a bank, broker or other nominee, and are often said to hold those shares in “street name.” These stockholders are considered “beneficial owners” of those shares. If you hold shares of STAAR common stock as a beneficial owner in “street name” as of the Record Date, you will receive separate instructions from your bank, broker or other nominee describing how to vote your shares, and you will not be able to vote your shares at the Special Meeting without a legal proxy. If you do not return your bank’s, broker’s or other nominee’s voting form, do not vote via the Internet or telephone through your bank, broker or other nominee, if possible, or do not attend the Special Meeting and vote thereat, it will have the same effect as if you voted “ AGAINST” the Merger Proposal but, assuming a quorum is present, will not have any effect on the Compensation Proposal (so long as you do not attend the Special Meeting and abstain from voting on any given proposal, which would have the same effect as voting “ AGAINST” the Merger Proposal and the Compensation Proposal). -29-

Revocability of Proxies 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 the Broadwood Group, which is soliciting proxies in opposition to the Board’s recommendations presented in this proxy statement, including the Merger Proposal and the Compensation Proposal. If you have submitted such a proxy card (including a green proxy card), we ask that you recast your vote as instructed in this proxy statement. Any proxy given by a STAAR stockholder may be revoked by doing any of the following:

| • |     | At the Special Meeting: Virtually attending the Special Meeting and voting at the Special                                                                       
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