Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-173098
Chunk: 62

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: DEFA14A
Chunk 62
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) “Clean Team Information,” pursuant to and as defined in the Clean Team
Agreement.

5.2 Operation of the Acquired Corporations’Business. During the
Pre-Closing Period, except (i) as required or expressly contemplated by this Agreement or as required by applicable Legal Requirements, (ii) with the prior written consent of Parent (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) or (iii) as set forth in Section 5.2 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:

(a) the Company shall, and shall cause each Acquired Corporation to, use commercially reasonable efforts to conduct its business in the
ordinary course and use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact its material business organizations and existing relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, licensees, Regulatory Authorities and other
persons with whom the Acquired Corporations have business relationships that are material to the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole; and

(b) the Company shall not, and shall cause the other Acquired Corporations not to:

(i) (A) establish a record date for, declare, set aside or pay any dividend or make any other distribution in respect of any shares of
its capital stock (including the Shares), other than dividends and distributions paid by wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Company to the Company or to any of the Company’s other wholly owned Subsidiaries, (B) repurchase, redeem or
otherwise reacquire any of the Shares, or any rights, warrants or options to acquire any of the Shares, other than: (1) repurchases of Shares outstanding as of the date of this Agreement pursuant to the Company’s right (under written
commitments in effect as of the date of this Agreement) to purchase Shares held by a Company Associate; (2) forfeitures or repurchases of Company Options, Company RSU Awards, or Company PSU Awards (or Shares issued upon the exercise or vesting
thereof) outstanding on the date of this Agreement (or granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof) pursuant to the terms of any such Company Option, Company RSU Award, or Company PSU Award in effect as of the date
of this Agreement (or as in effect on the date of grant with respect to awards granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof) between the Company and a Company Associate; or (3) in connection with withholding to
satisfy the exercise price or Tax