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\nSTAAR Surgical (NASDAQ: STAA) designs, develops, manufactures and markets implantable lenses for the eye and companion delivery systems.  \nFounded in 1982  \nHeadquartered in California  \n13%  \ngrowth  \n2024 versus 2023  \n$322Mnet sales  \nFiscal year 2023  \nCHALLENGE  \nMaking it easier for legal and finance teams to work together  \nSTAAR Surgical was successfully using ActiveDisclosure for financial reporting and SEC filing, and greatly benefited from the easy-to-use and time-saving collaboration it enabled among its financial team.  \nThey wanted to experience similar benefits during their proxy disclosure projects involving legal staff, financial staff and others.  \nSOLUTION  \nUse ActiveDisclosure for proxy statements  \nSTARR Surgical was already using ActiveDisclosure for preparing and filing SEC Forms 8-Ks, 10-Qs and 10-Ks, so using it for proxy statements was a natural next step. DFIN is continuously innovating its solutions, and recent enhancements further expanding content design, layout, and styling capabilities made it possible for STAAR to upgrade its proxy disclosure with ActiveDisclosure software backed by DFIN project management and subject matter experts.  \nEASY-TO-USE COLLABORATION FEATURES  \nSecurely share document access with internal and external users.  \nMODERN DESIGNS WITH IMPRESSIVE GRAPHICS  \nMulti-column formats, advanced text styles, graphical charts and more.  \nFAMILIAR USER INTERFACE FOR TEAM MEMBERS  \nLinks to Excel for financial staff and works like Word for legal staff.  \nActiveDisclosure has helped improve our public reporting and disclosure efforts by making it easier for the legal and financial reporting teams to collaborate. Working together on a document in the platform, while sharing ideas and reviewing each other's work, drives better results.”  \n“Now, doing our proxy in ActiveDisclosure means we can prepare a quality document with good disclosure that also looks good and will represent the company well. I love that ActiveDisclosure makes it easy to use more charts, colors and graphics.”  \nNATHANIEL (NATE) SISITSKY  \nSenior VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary STAAR Surgical  \nActiveDisclosure streamlines proxy statement projects.  \nActiveDisclosure improves proxy communications and is backed by proxy strategy and design experts. Highly intuitive collaboration tools help optimize productivity for teams of any size. Seamless integration with Excel and other data sources saves time, reduces errors and lowers costs. 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