Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 13 January 2012 it purchased 70,609 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.61205 per share. The shares have been
placed into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 8,702,526 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 55,807,116 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

13 January 2012

Enquiries:

Mhairi Macdonald

Edinburgh Partners Limited

Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square

Edinburgh

EH2 4DJ