Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 277

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 277
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 Adverse Effect has occurred to the extent not otherwise excluded by another exception herein; |

| (vii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect arising from any action taken by any Acquired Corporation                                                                                      
 at the written direction or request of Parent or with Parent’s written consent, or any action required or specifically permitted to be taken by any Acquired Corporation pursuant to this Agreement; |

| (viii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from the identity of, or any facts                                                                                                                                       
 or circumstances relating to, Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates, including the impact thereof on the relationships, contractual or otherwise, of the Acquired Corporations with any employees, Labor Organization, financing 
 sources, customers, distributors, suppliers, partners, Governmental Bodies or other business relationships;                                                                                                                                         |

| (ix) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect arising directly or indirectly from or otherwise relating                                                                                               
 to any change in, or any compliance with or action taken for the purpose of complying with any change in, any Legal Requirement or GAAP (or interpretations or enforcement of any Legal Requirement or GAAP); |

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| (x) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any actual or potential                                                            
 sequester, stoppage, shutdown, default or similar event or occurrence by or involving any Governmental Body affecting a national or federal government as a whole; |

| (xi) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from changes in anti-dumping 
 actions, international tariffs, trade policies, sanctions, Legal Requirements, or any “trade wars”;     |

| (xii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any Stockholder Litigation; or |

| (xiii) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any breach by Parent or Merger 
 Sub of this Agreement; or                                                                                      |

| (xiv) | any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect resulting or arising from any matter disclosed in Section 
 B of the Company Disclosure Schedule;                                                                           |

providedthat if any event, occurrence, circumstance, change or effect referred to in the foregoing clauses (iii), (iv), (v), ( ix), (x)and (xi)has had, or would be reasonably expected to have, a disproportionate and adverse effect on the Acquired Corpor