Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 172

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 172
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 public official pursuant to any abandoned property, escheat or other similar Legal Requirements. Any amounts remaining unclaimed by such holders at such time at which such amounts would otherwise escheat to or become property of any
Governmental Body shall become, to the extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, the property of the Surviving Corporation or its designee, free and clear of all claims or interest of any Person previously entitled thereto.

(d) At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of the Company with respect to the Shares shall be closed and thereafter there shall be no
further registration of transfers of Shares on the records of the Company. From and after the Effective Time, the holders of the Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall cease to have any rights with respect to such Shares
except as otherwise provided herein or by applicable Legal Requirements. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be cancelled and exchanged as provided in
this Agreement.

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(e) (i) Each of the Company, the Surviving Corporation, Parent, Merger Sub, the
Exchange Agent and their respective Affiliates, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold (or cause the Exchange Agent to deduct and withhold) from any amount payable to any Person pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as it is required by any
Legal Requirement to deduct and withhold with respect to Taxes. Each such withholding agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to reduce or eliminate any such withholding, including by requesting any necessary Tax forms, including IRS Form W-9 or the appropriate series of IRS Form W-8, as applicable, or any similar information under U.S. federal, state or local or
non-U.S. Legal Requirements. Each such withholding agent shall take all action that may be necessary to ensure that any such amounts so withheld are timely and properly remitted to the appropriate Governmental
Body. To the extent that amounts are so deducted or withheld and timely and properly remitted to the appropriate Governmental Body, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Person in
respect of which such deduction and withholding was made (except in the case of any deduction or withholding under the Legal Requirements of Switzerland or any political subdivision thereof that is applicable as a result of the status of Parent or
any Affiliate of Parent as a tax resident of Switzerland, Parent or any Affiliate of Parent having any other nexus with Switzerland for Tax purposes or any payment