IRIDEX CORP IRIX

election_required = True...Section 1. If I own fewer than 100 shares and I tender all of my shares, will I be subject to proration? If you own beneficially or of record fewer than 100 shares in the aggregate, you properly tender all of these shares prior to the Expiration Time and you complete the section entitled "Odd Lots" in the Letter of Transmittal and, if applicable, in the Notice of Guarantee Delivery, we will purchase all of your shares without subjecting them to the proration procedure. See Section 1. Once I have tendered shares in the Offer, can I withdraw my tender? Yes. You may withdraw any shares you have tendered at any time before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Decembe...

expiry = 2012-12-07...Exhibit (a)(1)(A) Offer to Purchase for Cash by IRIDEX CORPORATION of Up to 487,500 Shares of its Common Stock at a Purchase Price of $4.10 Per Share THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON DECEMBER 7, 2012, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED. IRIDEX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company," "IRIDEX," "we," or "us"), is offering to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "common stock"), at a purc...

expiry = 2012-12-07...1)(A)(i) Amendment No. 1 to Offer to Purchase for Cash by IRIDEX CORPORATION of Up to 487,500 Shares of its Common Stock at a Purchase Price of $4.10 THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON DECEMBER 7, 2012, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED. IRIDEX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company," "IRIDEX," "we," or "us"), is offering to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "common stock"), at a purc...

listed = True...ion by us concerning the events described above will be final and binding on all persons participating in the Offer, subject to such Offer participant's disputing such determination in a court of competent jurisdiction. 8. Price Range of the Shares The shares are traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "IRIX". The following table sets forth, for each of the periods indicated, the high and low sales prices per share for our common stock as reported by NASDAQ, based on published financial sources. High Low Fiscal 2010 First Quarter $ 4.49 $ 2.90 Second Quarter 4.50 3.65 Third Quarter 4.01 2.77 Fourth Quarter 3.96 3.30 Fiscal 2011 First Qu...

listed = True...ares). See Sections 1 and 15 of the Offer to Purchase. The Offer is not conditioned upon any minimum number of shares being tendered. The Offer is, however, subject to certain other conditions. See Section 7 of the Offer to Purchase. The shares are listed and traded on the Nasdaq Global Market ("NASDAQ") under the symbol "IRIX". On November 12, 2012, the most recent practicable trading day before we commenced the Offer, the last reported sale price of the shares on NASDAQ was $3.83 per share. Stockholders are urged to obtain current market quotations for the shares. See Section 8 of the Offer to Purchase. Our Board of Directors has app...

mechanism = FIXEDEX-99.(A)(1)(A) 2 a2211667zex-99_a1a.htm EX-(A)(1)(A) QuickLinks -- Click here to rapidly navigate through this document Exhibit (a)(1)(A) Offer to Purchase for Cash by IRIDEX CORPORATION of Up to 487,500 Shares of its Common Stock at a Purchase Price of $4.10 Per Share THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON DECEMBER 7, 2012, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED. IRIDEX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company," "IRIDEX," "we," or "us"), is offering to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "common st...

mechanism = FIXED...ment on Schedule TO originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2012 (the "Schedule TO"). The Schedule TO relates to the offer by the Company to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase, dated November 13, 2012 ("Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase"), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit (a)(1)(A)(i), in the Offer to Purch...

mechanism = FIXED...EX Corporation Announces Preliminary Results of its Tender Offer Mountain View, Calif., December 10, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the preliminary results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. Based on the preliminary count by Computershare Inc., the depositary for the tender offer, an aggregate of 1,447,141 shares of common stock were properly tendered and not withdrawn, including 14,060 shares that were tendered through notice of guaranteed deliver...

mechanism = FIXED...RELEASE IRIDEX Corporation Announces Final Results of its Tender Offer Mountain View, Calif., December 14, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the final results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. IRIDEX has accepted for payment an aggregate of 487,500 shares of its common stock, including all “odd lots” properly tendered, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, for a total cost of approximately $2 million. These shares represent approximately 5.5 percen...

must_tender_all = True...h greater number of shares as we may elect to accept for payment, subject to applicable law) are properly tendered and not properly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Time, we will purchase shares: •first, from all holders of "odd lots" of less than 100 shares who properly tender all of their shares and do not properly withdraw them before the Expiration Time; •second, from all other stockholders who properly tender shares on a pro rata basis (except for stockholders who tendered shares conditionally for which the condition was not satisfied); and •third, only if necessary to permit us to purchase 487,500 shares (or such greater num...

no_priority = True...ption from withholding is applicable because such gross proceeds are effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business by the foreign stockholder within the United States. See Section 3. 6. Conditional Tender of Shares Subject to the exception for Odd Lot Holders, in the event of an over-subscription of the Offer, shares tendered prior to the Expiration Time will be subject to proration. See Section 1. As discussed in Section 14, the number of shares to be purchased from a particular stockholder may affect the tax treatment of the purchase to the stockholder and the stockholder's decision whether to tender. Accordingly, a stockholder may tender shares subject to the condition that a specified minimum number of the stock...

price = USD 4.1...ckLinks -- Click here to rapidly navigate through this document Exhibit (a)(1)(A) Offer to Purchase for Cash by IRIDEX CORPORATION of Up to 487,500 Shares of its Common Stock at a Purchase Price of $4.10 Per Share THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON DECEMBER 7, 2012, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED. IRIDEX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company," "IRIDEX," "we...

price = USD 4.1...on November 7, 2012 (the "Schedule TO"). The Schedule TO relates to the offer by the Company to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase, dated November 13, 2012 ("Amend...

price = USD 4.1...Calif., December 10, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the preliminary results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. Based on the preliminary count by Computershare Inc., the depositary for the tender offer, an aggregate of 1,447,141 shares of common stock w...

price = USD 4.1...View, Calif., December 14, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the final results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. IRIDEX has accepted for payment an aggregate of 487,500 shares of its common stock, including all “odd lots” properly tendered, at a purchase...

threshold = 100...ditioned upon the purchase of a specified number of shares, it is possible that none of those shares will be purchased. Odd Lots. The term "odd lots" means all shares properly tendered prior to the Expiration Time and not properly withdrawn by any person (an "Odd Lot Holder") who owned beneficially or of record a total of fewer than 100 shares and so certified in the appropriate place on the Letter of Transmittal and, if applicable, on the Notice of Guaranteed Delivery. To qualify for this preference, an Odd Lot Holder must tender all shares owned by the Odd Lot Holder in accordance with the procedures described in Section 3. Odd Lots will be accepted for payment before any pr...

txn_type = TENDER_OFFEREX-99.(A)(1)(A) 2 a2211667zex-99_a1a.htm EX-(A)(1)(A) QuickLinks -- Click here to rapidly navigate through this document Exhibit (a)(1)(A) Offer to Purchase for Cash by IRIDEX CORPORATION of Up to 487,500 Shares of its Common Stock at a Purchase Price of $4.10 Per Share THE OFFER, PRORATION PERIOD AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON DECEMBER 7, 2012, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED. IRIDEX Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company," "IRIDEX," "we," or...

txn_type = TENDER_OFFER...res of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase, dated November 13, 2012 ("Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase"), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit (a)(1)(A)(i), in the Offer to Purchase dated November 7, 2012 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase, the "Offer to Purchase"), a copy of which was previously attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(A) to the Schedule...

txn_type = TENDER_OFFER...htm EX-99.(A)(1)(H) Exhibit (a)(1)(H) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IRIDEX Corporation Announces Preliminary Results of its Tender Offer Mountain View, Calif., December 10, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the preliminary results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. Based on the preliminary count by Computershare Inc., the depositary for the tender offer, an aggregate of 1,447,141 shares of common stock were properly tendered and not withdrawn,...

txn_type = TENDER_OFFER...2140zex-99_a1i.htm EX (A)(1)(I) Exhibit (a)(1)(I) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IRIDEX Corporation Announces Final Results of its Tender Offer Mountain View, Calif., December 14, 2012 — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) announced today the final results of its tender offer to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Friday, December 7, 2012. IRIDEX has accepted for payment an aggregate of 487,500 shares of its common stock, including all “odd lots” properly tendered, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, for a total c...

final_price = 4.1...s and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2012 (the "Schedule TO"). The Schedule TO relates to the offer by the Company to purchase up to 487,500 shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a purchase price of $4.10 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase, dated November 13, 2012 ("Amendment No. 1 to the Offer to Purchase"), a copy of which is at...