Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 137

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
Chunk 137
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 the Merger Agreement provides that STAAR will not, and will cause each of its subsidiaries not to:

| • |     | establish a record date for, declare, set aside, or pay any dividend, or make any other distribution in respect                                                                                                                        
 of any shares of STAAR’s capital stock (including the shares of STAAR common stock), other than dividends and distributions paid by wholly owned subsidiaries of STAAR to STAAR, or to any of STAAR’s other wholly owned subsidiaries; |

| • |     | adopt any stockholder rights plan or “poison pill”; |

| • |     | repurchase, redeem, or otherwise reacquire any of the shares of STAAR common stock, or any rights, warrants, or                                                                                                                                
 options to acquire any of the shares of STAAR common stock, other than: (1) certain repurchases of shares of STAAR common stock pursuant to STAAR’s right under written commitments to purchase STAAR common stock held by an employee,        
 officer, director or independent contractor of STAAR as of August 4, 2025, (2) forfeitures or repurchases of STAAR Options, STAAR RSU Awards or STAAR PSU Awards (or shares of STAAR common stock issued upon the exercise or vesting thereof) 
 pursuant to their terms, (3) in connection with withholding to satisfy the exercise price or tax obligations with respect to STAAR Options, STAAR RSU Awards or STAAR PSU Awards;                                                              |

| • |     | split, combine, subdivide, or reclassify any shares of common stock or other equity interests, except for any                                   
 such transaction by a wholly owned subsidiary of STAAR which remains a wholly owned subsidiary of STAAR after consummation of such transaction; |

| • |     | sell, issue, grant, deliver, pledge, transfer, encumber, or authorize the sale, issuance, grant, delivery,                                                                                                                                           
 pledge, transfer or encumbrance of (i) any capital stock, equity interest, or other security of STAAR and its subsidiaries, (ii) any option, call, warrant, restricted securities or right to acquire any capital stock, equity interest or          
 other security of STAAR and its subsidiaries, or (iii) any instrument convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock, equity interest or other security of STAAR and its subsidiaries; subject to certain exceptions allowing STAAR to issue 
 shares of common stock in connection with the exercise or vesting of equity awards and solely