Hamburg, April 20th, 2007: In preparation for nextevolution AG's (ISIN: DE 000 A0J C0A 2) intended move into the Prime Segment transparency level of the regulated unofficial market (geregelter markt), the company and its sponsor bank, quirin bank AG today approved a change of the lock-up agreement with the major shareholder, Gerd Nicklisch. Deviating from the previous market protection agreement, the new regulation provides for the shares of the majority shareholder to be securitized under the same securities number as those in the open market (Entry Standard). As a result, all the shares evidencing the Company's share capital can be approved for trading in the Prime Standard in one go. This does not affect the 376,000 shares being held in trust at quirin bank AG to December 31, 2008. However, it will not be possible to sell the shares before the end of the lock-up period without the consent of nextevolution AG and quirin bank AG. Contact nextevolution AG Carl Bosch Haus Hamburger Allee 26-28 60486 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49 69 297 287 42 Fax.: +49 69 297 287 77 www.nextevolution.de [email protected] _______________________________________________________ About nextevolution AG: The offered spectrum of services from nextevolution AG is comprised of management consulting, IT consulting, system integration, and application management. This enables the company to accompany entire life cycles of customer solutions. The company's portfolio targets medium-size businesses and large corporations with emphasis on specific requirements and their own specific characteristics. They expect individual solutions for the usage of a business-management standard software. nextevolution AG develops jointly with their customers customized IT strategies and supports them during the planning, implementation and integration phase of business systems, tailored to their industry-specific and business-specific requirements. For the subsequent usage phase, nextevolution AG offers reliable service and maintenance. The company's main emphasis in their positioning is in the optimization and integration of business processes, document management and business-management application systems. nextevolution co-operates with market-leading software providers, such as SAP, FileNet and Saperion and uses their standard product platforms to setup their solutions. In addition, nextevolution AG offers a series of proprietary templates, which usually originate from project development and fulfill specific market requirements. They focus in particular on the real estate business and the housing management market. nextevolution is operating across industries. Among nextevolution's customers currently are businesses named in the following: industry, trade, financial services, telecommunication, real estate industry and public service. The company's main place of business is in Hamburg with subsidiaries in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna (Austria). --- End of Message --- nextevolution Am Sandtorkai 74 Hamburg Germany WKN: A0JC0A; ISIN: DE000A0JC0A2; Listed: Entry Standard in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, Freiverkehr in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, Freiverkehr in Börse Stuttgart, Freiverkehr in Bayerische Börse München, Freiverkehr in Börse Düsseldorf, Freiverkehr in Börse Berlin Bremen;