Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-11-17
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001193125-25-284603
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-17
Form: DEFA14A
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, 2025 (the “go-shop period”). During
the go-shop period, STAAR may solicit, facilitate and encourage (including by furnishing non-public information) any Acquisition Proposals from third parties
and engage in discussions or negotiations regarding any such proposals. At the end of the go-shop period, STAAR must notify Alcon of any Acquisition Proposals received during the go-shop period that remain pending following the expiration of the go-shop period, but Alcon does not have any right to “match” any such
Acquisition Proposal and STAAR is not required during the go-shop period to notify Alcon of any proposals it receives. The Amendment also reduces to $0 the termination fee payable by STAAR to Alcon
in the event that STAAR terminates the Merger Agreement to accept a Superior Offer from a Qualified Bidder (as defined in the Amendment), if the Board changes its recommendation that STAAR’s stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement in respect
of a Superior Offer from a Qualified Bidder, and under the circumstances described in the third bullet under the section titled “The Merger Agreement—Termination Fees” of the proxy statement.

The STAAR Board of Directors approved the Amendment after careful consideration and deliberation and determined that the Merger Agreement and
the transactions contemplated thereby, as amended by the Amendment, including the Merger, are advisable, fair to and in the best interests of STAAR and its stockholders, approved, adopted and declared advisable the execution and delivery of, and
entry into, the Amendment, and directed that the Merger Agreement be submitted to the STAAR stockholders for adoption at the special meeting of STAAR stockholders (including any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “Special
Meeting”).

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The Merger cannot be completed without approval of the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement by the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of STAAR common stock entitled to vote thereon. Because of this, STAAR is holding the Special Meeting to vote on the proposal necessary to consummate the Merger (the “Merger Proposal”). The chair of the Special Meeting may, in his or her discretion, adjourn the Special Meeting to a later date or date(s), including for the purpose of soliciting additional proxies. As disclosed by STAAR on a Current Report on Form 8-Kfiled on November 7, 2025, STAAR announced that, in connection with the Amendment, the Special Meeting, which had previously been postponed