Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 88

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 88
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or assets of STAAR or any other business or person. Citi’s opinion did not address any terms (other than the Merger Consideration to the extent expressly specified in its opinion), aspects or implications of the Merger, including, without
limitation, the form or structure of the Merger, or any other agreement, arrangement, or understanding to be entered into in connection with, related to or contemplated by the Merger or otherwise. Citi expressed no view as to, and its opinion does
not address, the underlying business decision of STAAR to effect or enter into the Merger, the relative merits of the Merger as compared to any alternative business strategies that might exist for STAAR or the effect of any other transaction in
which STAAR might engage or that STAAR might consider. Citi also expressed no view as to, and its opinion did not address, the fairness (financial or otherwise) of the amount or nature or any other aspect of any compensation or other consideration
to any officers, directors or employees of any parties to the Merger (in their capacity as such), or any class of such persons, relative to the Merger Consideration or otherwise. Citi did not express any opinion or view with respect to the
accounting, tax, regulatory, legal or similar matters and Citi relied, with the Board’s consent, upon the assessments of representatives of STAAR as to such matters. Citi’s opinion was necessarily based upon information available to
Citi, and financial, stock market and other conditions and circumstances existing, as of the date of its opinion. Although subsequent developments may affect Citi’s opinion, Citi has no obligation to update, revise or reaffirm its opinion.

In preparing its opinion, Citi performed a variety of financial and comparative analyses, including those described below. The
preparation of a financial opinion is a complex analytical process involving various determinations as to the most appropriate and relevant methods of financial analysis and the application of those methods to the particular circumstances and,
therefore, a financial opinion is not readily susceptible to partial analysis or summary description. Citi arrived at its opinion based on the results of all analyses undertaken by it and factors assessed as a whole, and it did not draw, in
isolation, conclusions from or with regard to any one factor or method of analysis for purposes of its opinion.

The estimates used by
Citi for purposes of its analyses and the valuation ranges resulting from any particular analysis are not necessarily indicative of actual values or predictive of future