August 18, 2020

Company Name

GRACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Representative

President and COO

Tomoya Iida

Securities Code: 6541,

TSE First Section

Contact Person

Director and CFO

Nobuyuki Oike

(TEL.03-5777-3838)

Notice of Change in the potential Largest Shareholder, who is also a Principal Shareholder

GRACE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (hereinafter, "GRACE") announces that its potential largest shareholder, who is also a principal shareholder, is going to be changed. Details are presented as follows

1. Background of change

Today, we received a notice from an investment bank (hereinafter, the "Manager") who is the potential largest shareholder and principal shareholder that the Manager is going to sell its purchasing shares. Accordingly, it will result in a change in the largest shareholder and principal shareholder as described below.

2. Overview of the shareholders that has been changed

Person who will no longer be a principal shareholder nor the largest shareholder

Company Name

The Manager

Address

Omitted in English version of press release

Title and name of Representative

Omitted in English version of press release

Main Business

Brokerage business

Capital

83,616 million yen

3. Number of voting rights held (number of shares held) by the shareholders before and after the change and percentage in voting rights of all shareholders

The Manager

Number of voting

Number of

Large

voting rights

Attributes

rights (number of

shareholder

(Percentage of

shares held)

rank

voting rights)

Before the change*

Largest shareholder,

26,000

which is also a

18.32%

No. 1

(as of August 20, 2020)

(2,600,000 shares)

principal shareholder

After the change

-

-

-

-

  • In the "Notice of Change in Principal Shareholder and the Largest Shareholder, who is also a Principal Shareholder" as of August 17,2020, number of shares which the Manager hold was subject to change and finally fixed as above.
  1. Scheduled Date of Change August 20, 2020
  2. Future Outlook

The changes are not expected to affect the financial performance of GRACE

In the "Notice of Change in Principal Shareholder and the Largest Shareholder, who is also a Principal Shareholder" as of August 17,2020, number of shares which Yukiharu Matsumura hold was subject to change and finally fixed as below. Yukiharu Matsumura has agreed to a lock-up not to sell his residual shares in GRACE in any format at least in 180days after the settlement of such transaction.

Yukiharu Matsumura

Attributes

Number of voting

Number of voting

Large

rights (number of

rights(Percentage

shareholder

shares held)

of voting rights)

rank

Largest

Before the change

shareholder, which

23,608

16.63%

No. 1

(as of June 30, 2020)

is also a principal

(2,360,800 shares)

shareholder

After the change

Largest

13,987

9.85%

No. 1

shareholder

(1,398,700 shares)

1The percentage of voting rights is calculated based shares outstanding as of 30th June, 2020 deducting shares without voting rights.

Shares outstanding as of 30th June, 2020: 14,199,300 shares

Number of shares without voting rights: 5,000 shares

2The percentage of voting rights is calculated based on rounding to 2 decimal points.

3The ranking of large shareholders is based on the shareholders list as of 31st March, 2020.

Note: This document is a press release to announce a change in principal shareholder and the largest shareholder, who is also a principal shareholder, of GRACE, and it has not been prepared for the purpose of soliciting investments or other conduct of a similar nature, whether in Japan or overseas. This press release does not constitute an offer or sale of securities in the United States. The shares of common stock of GRACE have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"). The securities may not be offered or sold in the United States unless the securities are registered or exempted from registration under the Securities Act. GRACE does not plan to register the securities in the United States in relation to this matter.

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