Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 240

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 240
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 including any actions of the Board of Directors (or any committee thereof) with respect to any of the foregoing, whether prior to or after the execution of this Agreement, or (E) relates to any Trade Secrets
or other commercially sensitive information), (v) consult and cooperate with the other party and consider in good faith the views of the other party in connection with any analysis, appearance, communication, filing, submission, presentation,
memorandum, brief, argument, opinion or proposal made or submitted to any Governmental Body or Applicable Third Party with respect to the Merger or the other Transactions and relating to Antitrust Laws, and (vi) except as may be prohibited by
any Governmental Body or by any Legal Requirement, give the other party reasonable advance notice of, and permit the other party (or their authorized Representatives) to be present at and participate in each meeting or conference and to have access
to and be consulted in connection with any argument, opinion or proposal made or submitted to any Governmental Body or Applicable Third Party, in each case, with respect to the Merger or the other Transactions and relating to Antitrust Laws. Subject
to compliance with its obligations in this Section 6.2, Parent shall control the strategy on behalf of the Parties relating to regulatory approvals under the Antitrust Laws that are required to consummate the Merger or the other Transactions;
provided that, without limiting this Section 6.2, Parent shall, and shall cause its controlled Affiliates to, consult with the Company with respect to, and the Company shall be kept apprised of, proposed strategy and other significant
decisions with respect to such regulatory approvals, and the Company may offer comments or suggestions with respect to such regulatory approvals, which Parent shall, and shall cause its controlled Affiliates to, consider in good faith. Any Party
may, as they deem advisable and necessary, designate any commercially or competitively sensitive materials provided to the other under this Section 6.2 as “outside counsel only.” Such materials and the information contained therein
shall be given only to outside counsel of the recipient and will not be disclosed by such outside counsel to employees, officers, or directors of the recipient without the advance written consent of the party providing such materials.

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6.3 Employee Matters.

(a) During the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the first anniversary of the Closing Date, Parent shall, or shall cause one
of its Affiliates to, provide each employee of the Company