Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 113

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 113
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 proxy or vote abstaining from or voting against the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement. Voting against or failing to vote for the 
 adoption of the Merger Agreement by itself does not constitute a demand for appraisal within the meaning of Section 262. The demand must reasonably inform STAAR of the identity of the stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, and the        
 intention of such person to demand appraisal of his, her, its or their shares of STAAR common stock. A stockholder’s or beneficial owner’s failure to make a written demand for appraisal before the vote on the adoption of the Merger                
 Agreement at the Special Meeting is taken will constitute a waiver of appraisal rights;                                                                                                                                                                |

| • |     | the person must continuously hold the shares of STAAR common stock from the date of making the demand through the                                                                                               
 Effective Time (a stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, will lose appraisal rights if such stockholder or beneficial owner transfers the shares of STAAR common stock before the Effective Time); and |

| • |     | the person, another stockholder or beneficial owner who has properly demanded appraisal rights and is otherwise                                                                                                                                           
 entitled to appraisal rights or the Surviving Corporation must file a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery requesting a determination of the fair value of the shares of STAAR common stock within 120 days after the Effective Time. The Surviving 
 Corporation is under no obligation to file any petition and has no intention of doing so.                                                                                                                                                                 |

If you fail to comply with any of these conditions and the Merger is completed, then you will be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration, but you will have no appraisal rights with respect to your shares of STAAR common stock. Making a Written Demand Any stockholder or beneficial owner wishing to exercise appraisal rights must deliver to STAAR, before the vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the Special Meeting, a written demand for the appraisal of the stockholder’s or beneficial owner’s shares of STAAR common stock. The person making the written demand must be a stockholder of record or a beneficial owner, as applicable, on the date the written demand for appraisal is made, and such person must continue to hold or beneficially own, respectively, the shares of STAAR common stock as to which such demand relates through the effective date of the Merger. A person wishing to exercise appraisal rights must not vote or submit a proxy in favor of the proposal to adopt of the Merger Agreement either during the Special Meeting or by proxy