Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-197213
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-05
Form: DEFA14A
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| 6. | Will there be any impact on STAAR’s annual corporate bonus program for 2025? |

| • |     | As in prior years, the Compensation Committee of STAAR’s Board of Directors approved a corporate bonus plan 
 with performance targets for 2025.                                                                          |

| • |     | The Compensation Committee will be responsible for determining the level of achievement by STAAR of the                                                                                                          
 performance targets for 2025, based on actual achievement of the financial and strategic goals established for the corporate bonus plan, and to determine the overall funding of the annual bonus plan for 2025. |

| • |     | As in prior years, participating employees in the annual corporate bonus plan will be eligible to receive a bonus 
 payout as determined in accordance with plan terms.                                                               |

| • |     | Depending on the timing of closing, STAAR may pay any such bonuses immediately prior to closing. |

The following applies only to STAAR team members who own STAAR common stock or who participate in a STAAR long-term incentive program as part of their compensation.

| 7. | What will happen to the shares of STAAR common stock that I own upon the closing of the merger? |

| • |     | Upon the closing of the merger, your shares of STAAR common stock will convert into the right to receive $28 per 
 share in cash, without interest.                                                                                 |

| • |     | Promptly following the closing of the merger, you will receive instructions as to how to surrender your shares of  
 STAAR common stock to STAAR’s exchange agent, which will be responsible for making payments to STAAR shareholders. |

| 8. | What will happen to my STAAR stock options? |

| • |     | In-the-money options: Upon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 the closing of the merger, any unvested options will automatically vest and you will become entitled to a cash payment for each share underlying your unvested options and vested options that you have not exercised that are “in-the-money options” (i.e., options with an exercise price of less than $28 per share), in an amount equal to the excess of $28 over the applicable per 
 share exercise price, without interest and less applicable tax withholding.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| • |     | Example: If you hold options to purchase 500 shares of STAAR common stock (whether unvested or vested and                                                                                  
 not yet exercised) with an exercise price of $18, you