Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 176

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 176
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 transactions described in this
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(g) To the extent a payment pursuant in this would trigger a
Tax or penalty under Section 409A of the Code, such payment shall be made on the earliest date that payment would not trigger such Tax or penalty.

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(h) Prior to the Effective Time, the Board of Directors or the appropriate committee of the
Board of Directors, as applicable, shall adopt all resolutions that it determines to be appropriate or necessary (under the Company Equity Plan and award agreements pursuant to which Company Options, Company RSU Awards and Company PSU Awards are
outstanding or otherwise) to effect the transactions described in this .

1.7 Further Action(a) . If, at any time after the Effective Time, any further action is reasonably determined by Parent to be necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement or vest the Surviving Corporation with full right, title and
possession of and to all rights and property of Merger Sub and the Company, the officers and directors of the Surviving Corporation and Parent shall be fully authorized (in the name of Merger Sub and/or in the name of the Company) to take such
action.

SECTION 2

THE SURVIVING CORPORATION

2.1 Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws; Directors and Officers.

(a) As of the Effective Time, subject to , the certificate of incorporation of the Company shall by
virtue of the Merger and without any further action, be amended and restated to read in its entirety so that it reads to be the same as the certificate of incorporation of Merger Sub, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, except that
(i) all references therein to Merger Sub shall be automatically amended to become references to the Surviving Corporation, (ii) the provisions naming the initial director(s) or incorporator(s) of Merger Sub shall be omitted and
(iii) the certificate of incorporation shall be amended to comply with , and, as so amended and restated, shall be the certificate of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter changed or
amended as provided therein or by applicable Legal Requirements.

(b) As of the Effective Time, the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation
shall be amended and restated to conform to the bylaws of Merger Sub as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, except that the bylaws shall be amended to comply with until thereafter changed or
amended as provided therein or by applicable Legal Requirements, except that references to the name of Mer