Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-204396
Chunk: 24

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-09-16
Form: DEFM14A
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 on the Record Date. Virtual attendance at the Special Meeting via 
 the Special Meeting website is not required to vote.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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| Q: | How does the Merger Consideration compare to the market price of STAAR common stock prior to the 
 announcement of the Merger Agreement?                                                            |

| A: | The Merger Consideration of $28.00 per share represents a premium of approximately 59% to the 90-day volume weighted average price of STAAR common stock at the time the Merger Agreement was announced on August 4, 2025, and approximately 51% premium to the closing price of STAAR common stock on 
 August 4, 2025. The closing price of STAAR common stock on NASDAQ on September 12, 2025, the most recent practicable date prior to the date of this proxy statement, was $27.70. You are encouraged to obtain current market prices of STAAR                                                           
 common stock in connection with voting your shares of STAAR common stock.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| Q: | May I attend and vote at the Special Meeting? |

If your shares of STAAR common stock are registered directly in your name with STAAR’s transfer agent, Equiniti Trust Company (formerly American Stock Transfer & Trust Company) (which this proxy statement refers to as “Equiniti”), you are considered a stockholder of record with respect to those shares. Some stockholders hold shares of STAAR common stock through a bank, broker or other nominee, and are often said to hold those shares in “street name.” These stockholders are considered “beneficial owners” of those shares. If you hold shares of STAAR common stock as a beneficial owner in “street name” as of the Record Date, you will receive separate instructions from your bank, broker or other nominee describing how to vote your shares, and you will not be able to vote your shares at the Special Meeting without a legal proxy. Even if you plan to attend the virtual Special Meeting, STAAR encourages you to sign, date and return the enclosed WHITE proxy card in the accompanying prepaid reply envelope or grant your proxy electronically over the Internet or by telephone (in accordance with the instructions detailed in “ The Special Meeting—Voting at the Special Meeting”) so that your vote will be counted if you later decide not to or become unable to attend the virtual Special Meeting. If you attend the virtual Special Meeting and vote thereat, your vote will revoke any proxy previously submitted.

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