August 4, 2023
To whom it may concern
Company Name: AVANT GROUP CORPORATIONName of Representative: Tetsuji Morikawa, Presidentand Group CEO(Code: 3836, TSE Prime Market)
Inquiries: Naoyoshi Kasuga, Director and Group CFO(TEL: 03-6388-6739)

Notice of Concerning Introduction of Restricted Share Granting System for
Employees (RS Trust)
AVANT Group hereby announces that the Board of Directors at a meeting held today, resolved tointroduce a share granting plan (hereinafter referred to as “the System") for employees of AVANT
Group Corporation and its operating companies, AVANT Corporation, Internet Disclosure Co., Ltd.,ZEAL Corporation and DIVA Corporation Details are as follows.

1. Purpose of the Introduction of the System
AVANT Group will launch its medium-term management plan “BE GLOBAL 2028” in 2023. In orderto realize the strategic materiality "To be a software company that increases corporate value", whichis the axis of our medium-term management plan, we will introduce this “Plan” to raise employees'
awareness of the need to improve the corporate value of our company, to have employees contributeto improving corporate value through their own actions, to have employees take the initiative in making
efforts, and to share the results over the medium - to long-term with other stakeholders.
2. Overview of the System
The System is a stock grant plan whereby a trust (“the Trust" ), which is established with money
contributed by AVANT Group, and the Trust acquires AVANT Group’s common stocks ("Share"), andthe shares are delivered to the Employees through the Trust based on points granted to theEmployees. (however, as described in ⑦ below, such shares shall be subject to restriction ontransfer to each employee until their retirement.
The details such as the number of shares to be delivered to the target person, will beadministered in accordance with the Share Delivery Rules set out by the Board of Directors of

AVANT Group Corporation.
AVANT Group will contribute the entire amount of funds for the acquisition.

<Overview of the Structure of the System>【Trustor】②Establishment of trust <third party benefit trust>

AVANT Group

Stock market③Purchase prices③Purchase of shares【Settlor】
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
(Re-trustee: Custody Bank of Japan)⑤Granting of①Establishment of Sharepoints

Delivery Rules

Share delivery trustShares

Money②Restriction on transfer
restriction agreements④Instructions to exercise voting rights⑥Saresk

Trust administrator【Beneficiaries】
Employees① AVANT Group will establish Share Delivery Rules for Employees.
② AVANT Group will establish a share delivery trust (third party benefit trust) with employees
as the beneficiaries (the Trust). At that time, AVANT Group will entrust to the Trustee theamount of money equivalent to the amount of funds for the acquisition of shares.
③ The Trustee will acquire, in a single tranche, the number of the Shares sufficient for theexpected future delivery of shares from the stock market (including off-auction trading).
④ AVANT Group will appoint a trust administrator (who must be independent of AVANT Groupand officers) who shall be responsible for protecting the interests of the beneficiaries whoare covered by the Share Delivery Rules and supervising the Trustee throughout the trust
period. The trust administrator will instruct the Trustee to exercise voting rights associatedwith the Shares held in the Trust, and based on these instructions, the Trustee will exercise
voting rights throughout the trust period.
⑤ AVANT Group will grant points to Employees in accordance with the Share Delivery Rules.
⑥ Employees who fulfill the beneficiary requirements(including the conclusion of a transferrestriction agreement set forth in ⑦ below) set out in the Shares Delivery Rules and the trust
agreement that pertains to the Trust will, as the beneficiaries of the Trust, receive delivery ofthe Shares from the Trustee corresponding to the points.
⑦ With respect to the Shares to be delivered, they will be subject to restriction, between AVANT
Group and the Employee, on transfer from the date of delivery until the date of retirement.
AVANT Group will lift the transfer restriction on the delivered restricted shares, upon the timeof the Employee’s retirement (AVANT Group will acquire the Shares without compensation
for which the transfer restriction has not been lifted). AVANT Group, which is the Trustee
under the System, will delegate (re-entrust) management of the trust property to Custody
Bank of Japan, Ltd.

3. About the Trust(1) Name

Share delivery trust for Employees(2) Settlor

AVANT Group Corporation(3) Trustee

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
(Re-trust : Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd.)(4) Beneficiary

Employees who satisfy the beneficiary requirements(5) Trust administrator

Plan to select a third party that is independent of AVANT Group and its
officers(6) Exercise of Voting Rights

Throughout the period of the trust, the voting rights of the Shares heldin the trust will be exercised by the Trustee based on instructions fromthe trust administrator.

(7) Type of trust

Trust of money other than “money trust” (third party benefit trust)(8) Date of Trust Agreement

August 15, 2023

(9) Date of Entrustment ofAugust 15, 2023

Monies(10) Date of Trust Termination

September 30, 2028 (scheduled)

4. Matters regarding the Acquisition of the Shares by the Trustee of the Trust(1) Class of shares to be acquired(2) Amount of funds AVANT Group
entrusts for the acquisition of shares

Common stock of AVANT GroupJPY 450,000,000(3) Total number of shares to be acquired

Up to 350,000 shares(4) Method of acquisition of shares

Acquisition from the stock market(5) Term of the acquisition of shares

From August 15, 2023 to September 29, 2023 (planned)

Ends