Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 13

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 13
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 the Closing of the Merger.” The Merger cannot be completed until the parties obtain the necessary clearances or approvals to consummate the Merger or the applicable waiting periods have expired or been terminated. There can be no assurance that all of the required regulatory approvals that might be required to consummate the Merger will be obtained and, if obtained, there can be no assurance as to the timing of any such approvals, the parties’ ability to obtain the approvals on satisfactory terms, or that such regulatory bodies or private parties will not seek to take legal action to enjoin the completion of the Merger, seek divestiture of substantial assets of the parties, or require the parties to license or hold separate assets or terminate existing relationships and contractual rights. Although Alcon and STAAR do not believe the Merger violates the antitrust or foreign investment laws in any jurisdiction, there can be no assurance that a challenge to the Merger on such grounds will not be made or, if such a challenge is made, that it would not be successful. Conditions to the Closing of the Merger The respective obligations of each party to effect the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are subject to the fulfillment (or mutual waiver by Alcon and STAAR to the extent permitted under applicable law and the Merger Agreement) at or prior to the date on which the closing of the Merger (which closing this proxy statement refers to as the “Closing,” and which date this proxy statement refers to as the “Closing Date”) of the following conditions:

| • |     | adoption of the Merger Agreement by holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of STAAR common stock 
 entitled to vote thereon;                                                                                 |

| • |     | the absence of any temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, final judgment or other                                                                                       
 order issued and remaining in effect by any specified governmental body prohibiting or enjoining the consummation of the Merger and no legal requirement having been promulgated, enacted, issued, |

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| or deemed applicable to the Merger by specified governmental bodies which remains in effect and prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the Merger; and |

| • |     | the expiration or termination of the waiting period applicable to the consummation of the Merger under the HSR                                                                                             
 Act, as well as any agreement not to close embodied in a “timing agreement” between the parties and a governmental body, and making of, termination of, expiry of or obtainment of all other