Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 119

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 119
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 of the expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and the fees and expenses of experts, be
charged pro rata against the value of all shares of STAAR common stock entitled to appraisal not dismissed pursuant to subsection (k) of Section 262 or subject to such an award pursuant to a reservation of jurisdiction under subsection
(k) of Section 262. In the absence of such an order, each party bears its own expenses.

If any stockholder or beneficial owner
who demands appraisal of his, her, its, or their shares of STAAR common stock under Section 262 fails to perfect, or loses or successfully withdraws, such person’s right to appraisal, the person’s shares of STAAR common stock will
be deemed to have been converted at the Effective Time into the Merger Consideration, less applicable withholding taxes. A person will fail to perfect, or effectively lose or withdraw, the person’s right to appraisal if no petition for
appraisal is filed within 120 days after the Effective Time or if the stockholder or beneficial owner, as applicable, delivers to the Surviving Corporation a written withdrawal of the person’s demand for appraisal in respect to some or all of
such person’s shares of STAAR common stock and an acceptance of the Merger Consideration with respect to the shares of STAAR common stock subject to withdrawal in accordance with Section 262.

From and after the Effective Time, no person who has demanded appraisal rights will be entitled to vote their shares of STAAR common stock for
any purpose, or to receive payment of dividends or other distributions on the shares of STAAR common stock, except dividends or other distributions on the person’s shares of STAAR common stock, if any, payable to stockholders of record as of a
time prior to the Effective Time.

Failure to comply strictly with all of the procedures set forth in Section 262 may result in the
loss of statutory appraisal rights. Consequently, any stockholder or beneficial owner wishing to exercise appraisal rights is encouraged to consult legal counsel before attempting to exercise those rights.

STOCKHOLDERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS WHO VOTE SHARES IN FAVOR OF THE ADOPTION OF THE MERGER AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO EXERCISE APPRAISAL RIGHTS WITH RESPECT THERETO, BUT, RATHER, WILL RECEIVE THE MERGER CONSIDERATION.

To the extent there are any inconsistences between the foregoing summary, on the one hand, and Section 262, on the other hand