0001181431-12-030055.txt : 20120515 0001181431-12-030055.hdr.sgml : 20120515 20120515185548 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-12-030055 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120514 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120515 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120515 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MEIER RICHARD A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001227305 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-11634 FILM NUMBER: 12846853 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1700 E ST ANDREW PLACE CITY: SANTA ANA STATE: CA ZIP: 92705 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: STAAR SURGICAL CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000718937 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: OPHTHALMIC GOODS [3851] IRS NUMBER: 953797439 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0101 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1911 WALKER AVE CITY: MONROVIA STATE: CA ZIP: 91016 BUSINESS PHONE: 6263037902 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1911 WALKER AVE CITY: MONROVIA STATE: CA ZIP: 91016 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: STAAR SURGICAL COMPANY DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 4 1 rrd345449.xml R MEIER ELECTION GRANT 2012 X0305 4 2012-05-14 0 0000718937 STAAR SURGICAL CO STAA 0001227305 MEIER RICHARD A 1911 WALKER AVE. MONROVIA CA 91016 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2012-05-14 4 A 0 3000 0 D 28000 D Common Stock Options 10.31 2012-05-14 4 A 0 15000 0 A 2013-05-14 2022-05-13 Common Stock 15000 15000 D These 15000 stock options vest in full on May 14, 2012, with vesting generally to accelerate in the event the grantee's service as director ends prior to that date. These 3000 restricted shares vest in full on May 14, 2012, with vesting generally to accelerate in the event the grantee's service as director ends prior to that date. On March 14, 2012, STAAR granted each non-employee director an option to purchase 15,000 shares of common stock and also 3,000 restricted shares on election or re-election to the Board. /s/ Samuel Gesten as attorney-in-fact for Richard A. Meier 2012-05-15 EX-24. 2 rrd309883_349803.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd309883_349803.html 
                             POWER OF ATTORNEY

       Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of
Deborah Andrews and Samuel Gesten, signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-
in-fact to do any or all of the following:

(a)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer
or director of STAAR Surgical Company (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
thereunder;

(b)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and
execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and file such form with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and
(c)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which,

in the opinion of the attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the interest of, or legally
required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall
be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact
may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

       The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving
in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming,
any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.

       This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer
required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 (or such forms as may in the future be substituted therefore under
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act) with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as
of this 14th day May, 2012.

                                /s/Richard A. Meier
                                 Signature
                               Richard A. Meier