Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 221

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 221
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, conditioned or delayed) or (iii) as set forth in Section 5.2 of the Company Disclosure Schedule:

(a) the Company shall, and shall cause each Acquired Corporation to, use commercially reasonable efforts to conduct its business in the
ordinary course and use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact its material business organizations and existing relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, licensees, Regulatory Authorities and other
persons with whom the Acquired Corporations have business relationships that are material to the Acquired Corporations, taken as a whole; and

(b) the Company shall not, and shall cause the other Acquired Corporations not to:

(i) (A) establish a record date for, declare, set aside or pay any dividend or make any other distribution in respect of any shares of
its capital stock (including the Shares), other than dividends and distributions paid by wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Company to the Company or to any of the Company’s other wholly owned Subsidiaries, (B) repurchase, redeem or
otherwise reacquire any of the Shares, or any rights, warrants or options to acquire any of the Shares, other than: (1) repurchases of Shares outstanding as of the date of this Agreement pursuant to the Company’s right (under written
commitments in effect as of the date of this Agreement) to purchase Shares held by a Company Associate; (2) forfeitures or repurchases of Company Options, Company RSU Awards, or Company PSU Awards (or Shares issued upon the exercise or vesting
thereof) outstanding on the date of this Agreement (or granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof) pursuant to the terms of any such Company Option, Company RSU Award, or Company PSU Award in effect as of the date
of this Agreement (or as in effect on the date of grant with respect to awards granted after the date of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof) between the Company and a Company Associate; or (3) in connection with withholding to
satisfy the exercise price or Tax obligations with respect to Company Options, Company RSU Awards or Company PSU Awards or (C) enter into or adopt any “poison pill” or similar stockholder rights plan;

(ii) split, combine, subdivide or reclassify any Shares or other equity interests, except for any such transaction by a wholly owned
Subsidiary of the Company which remains a wholly owned Subsidiary of