Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 173

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 173
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 Except as required by Legal Requirements, none of Parent, Merger Sub or the Surviving Corporation shall have any liability for the Other
Person Transfer Taxes described in the immediately preceding sentence of this ; provided, that if Legal Requirements impose any such liability on Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation, such
Person requesting the payment as described in the immediately preceding sentence of this shall cause such Other Person Transfer Taxes to be paid on behalf of Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation
(such that none of Parent, Merger Sub, or the Surviving Corporation has any economic responsibility for such Other Person Transfer Taxes). Payment of the applicable Merger Consideration with respect to Book-Entry Shares shall only be made to the
Person in whose name such Book-Entry Shares are registered. Until surrendered as contemplated by this , each Certificate and Book-Entry Share (in each case, other than the Dissenting Shares (subject to
) and Excluded Shares) shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the applicable Merger Consideration as contemplated by .

(c) At any time following the twelve (12)-month anniversary of the Effective Time, Parent shall be entitled to require the Exchange Agent
to deliver to it any funds (with respect to the aggregate Merger Consideration to which holders of Shares shall become entitled pursuant to ) which had been made available to the Exchange Agent and not disbursed
to holders of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares (including all interest and other income received by the Exchange Agent in respect of all funds made available to it), and, thereafter, such holders shall be entitled to look to the Surviving
Corporation (subject to abandoned property, escheat and other similar Legal Requirements) only as general creditors thereof with respect to the Merger Consideration that may be payable upon due surrender of the Certificates or Book-Entry Shares held
by them, without any interest thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Surviving Corporation nor the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any holder of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares for the Merger Consideration delivered in respect of
such share to a public official pursuant to any abandoned property, escheat or other similar Legal Requirements. Any amounts remaining unclaimed by such holders at such time at which such amounts would otherwise escheat to or become property of any
Governmental Body shall become, to the extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, the property of the Surviving Corporation or its design