Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-258558
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 7
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 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. Even if you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, STAAR encourages you to sign, date and return the enclosed updated 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”) so that your vote will be counted if you later decide not to or become unable to attend the virtual Special Meeting. If you attend the virtual Special Meeting and vote thereat, your vote will revoke any proxy previously submitted.

| Q: | What constitutes a quorum? |

| A: | The presence by remote communication or by proxy of the holders of record on the Record Date of a majority of                                                                                                
 the STAAR common stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting will constitute a quorum at the Special Meeting. Since there were 49,354,123 49,365,823 shares of STAAR common stock outstanding and entitled 
 to vote as of the Record Date, STAAR will need holders of at least 24,677,062 24,682,912 shares present by remote communication or by proxy at the Special Meeting to achieve a quorum. In the event that a  
 quorum is not present at the Special Meeting, it is expected that the Special Meeting will be adjourned to solicit additional proxies.                                                                       |

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| Q: | How may I vote? |

| A: | There are four three ways to vote if you are a record holder                                       
 (i.e., you do not hold your shares of STAAR common stock through a broker, bank or other nominee): |

| • |     | By Telephone: As instructed on the                                                                                           
 WHITE proxy card, you can vote by making a toll-free telephone call from the U.S. or Canada to 1-800-690-6903 prior to 11:59 
 p.m., Eastern Time, on October 22, 2025.                                                                                     |

| • |     | At the Special Meeting: To vote during the Special Meeting, visit                                                                                                                                
 www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/STAA2025SM and enter the 16-digit control number included on your updated WHITE proxy card. Online access to the Special Meeting will open                     
 approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of the Special Meeting