Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 292

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 292
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| THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED. |     | DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY |

STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY

| The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR Proposals 1 and 2. 
 1.                                                                |     | A proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 4, 2025, as may be amended from time to time (the                                                                                        
 “Merger Agreement”), by and among STAAR Surgical Company (“STAAR”), Alcon Research, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Alcon”), and Rascasse Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned 
 subsidiary of Alcon.                                                                                                                                                                                              |     | For 
 ☐   |     | Against 
 ☐       |     | Abstain 
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| 2.                                                                |     | A proposal to approve, on an advisory (nonbinding) basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to STAAR’s named                                                                                    
 executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.                                                                       |     | ☐   |     | ☐       |     | ☐       |

| Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor,         |
| administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign  |
| personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate 
 or partnership name by authorized officer.                                                        |

| Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX] |     | Date |     | Signature (Joint Owners) |     | Date |

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