Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001213900-25-090869
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-24
Form: DEFC14A
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 a proxy to vote such shares, even
if you sold such shares after the Record Date.

How do I vote my shares?

Stockholder of Record: Shares Registered in Your Name

If,
as of the Record Date, your shares are registered in your own name, please vote today via the Internet or by telephone by following the
directions on the enclosed GREEN Proxy Card or by completing, signing, dating and promptly returning
the enclosed GREEN Proxy Card in the postage-paid envelope provided. A completed GREEN
Proxy Card returned by mail must be received at the address stated on the GREEN Proxy Card before
October 23, 2025. The deadline for voting on the GREENProxy Card via the Internet or
by telephone is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on October 22, 2025. You may also vote by attending the Special Meeting and voting your shares
online by following the instructions available on the meeting website. Please contact our proxy solicitor, Saratoga, by calling (212)
257-1311 or toll free at (888) 368-0379, or by email at info@saratogaproxy.com if you require any assistance with voting your shares or need
additional copies of our proxy materials.

Execution
and delivery of a proxy by a record holder of shares will be presumed to be a proxy with respect to all shares held by such record holder
unless the proxy specifies otherwise. Shares represented by properly executed GREEN Proxy Cards
will be voted in accordance with the directions indicated thereon. If you sign the GREENProxy Card but do not make any specific choices, your proxy will vote your shares as follows:

| ● | “AGAINST” the Merger Agreement Proposal; and |

| ● | “AGAINST” the Compensation Proposal. |

Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of Broker, Bank or Other Nominee

If, as of
the Record Date, you are the beneficial owner of shares and you held your shares in “street name” with a broker, bank or other
nominee, only that entity can vote your shares and only upon its receipt of your specific instructions. Accordingly, please contact the
person responsible for your account at such entity and instruct that person to vote “AGAINST” the Merger Proposals
on your behalf. You should also complete, sign, date and promptly return the voting instruction that your broker, bank or other nominee
sends you (or, if applicable, vote by following the instructions supplied to you by your broker, bank