Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-192889
Chunk: 167

Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-29
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 167
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 statement or need help voting your shares of STAAR common stock, please contact STAAR’s proxy solicitor:

INNISFREE M&A INCORPORATED

501 Madison Avenue, 20th Floor

New
York, New York 10022

Stockholders, please call toll-free: (877) 750-8233

Banks and brokerage firms, please call: (212) 750-5833

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MISCELLANEOUS

STAAR has supplied all information relating to STAAR, and Alcon has supplied, and STAAR has not independently verified, all of the information
relating to Alcon, Merger Sub and their affiliates contained in this proxy statement.

You should rely only on the information contained
in this proxy statement, the annexes to this proxy statement and the documents that STAAR incorporates by reference in this proxy statement in voting on the Merger. STAAR has not authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different
from what is contained in this proxy statement. This proxy statement is dated [ ], 2025. You should not assume that the information contained in this proxy statement is accurate as of any date other than that date (or as
of an earlier date if so indicated in this proxy statement), and the mailing of this proxy statement to STAAR stockholders does not create any implication to the contrary. This proxy statement does not constitute a solicitation of a proxy in any
jurisdiction where, or to or from any person to whom, it is unlawful to make a proxy solicitation.

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Annex A

Execution Version

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

by and among

STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY,

a Delaware corporation,

ALCON RESEARCH, LLC,

a
Delaware limited liability company, and

RASCASSE MERGER SUB, INC.,

a Delaware corporation

Dated as
of August 4, 2025

Table of Contents

|                           |     |                                                                                                              |     | Page |
| SECTION 1                 
 THE MERGER                |     |                                                                                                              |     |      |
| 1.1                       |     | The Closing                                                                                                  |     | A-1  |
| 1.2                       |     | The Merger                                                                                                   |     | A-2  |
| 1.3                       |     | Conversion of Shares                                                                                         |     | A-2  |
| 1.4                       |     | Surrender of Certificates;