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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 this Agreement to its stockholders at the Stockholder Meeting even if the Board of Directors shall have made a Company Adverse
Recommendation Change or proposed or announced any intention to do so, and (b) the Company agrees that it shall not submit to the vote of the stockholders of the Company any Acquisition Proposal (whether or not a Superior Offer) prior to the
vote of the Company’s stockholders with respect to the Merger at the Stockholder Meeting. The notice of such Stockholder Meeting shall state that a resolution to adopt this Agreement and the Merger will be considered at the Stockholder
Meeting, and no other matters shall be considered or voted upon at the Stockholder Meeting without Parent’s prior written consent (other than (i) a non-binding, advisory vote to approve or
disapprove certain compensation that may become payable to the Company’s named executive officers in connection with the completion of the Merger and (ii) whether to adjourn the Stockholder Meeting in accordance with this
) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). Following dissemination of the definitive Proxy Statement, the Company shall cooperate with and keep Parent informed on a reasonably
current basis regarding voting results, and unless and until a Company Adverse Recommendation Change has occurred in accordance with , its solicitation efforts. As promptly as practicable after the date of this
Agreement, the Company shall conduct a “broker search” in accordance with Rule 14a-13 of the Exchange Act

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assuming that, for such purposes only, the record date of the Stockholder Meeting will be twenty (20) Business Days after the date the broker search is conducted.

(b) Except to the extent expressly permitted by , (i) the Board of Directors shall recommend that the
Company’s stockholders vote in favor of the adoption of this Agreement and the Merger at the Stockholder Meeting and (ii) the Proxy Statement shall include the Company Board Recommendation.

(c) As promptly as practicable after the date hereof, the Company shall prepare and file with the SEC the Proxy Statement in preliminary form
(but in no event later than twenty (20) Business Days after the date of this Agreement). As soon as practicable thereafter, the Company shall file the definitive Proxy Statement and use its commercially reasonable efforts to mail to its
stockholders the Proxy Statement and all other proxy materials for the Stockholder Meeting. If necessary in order to comply with applicable securities laws, after the Proxy Statement shall have been so mailed, the Company