Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
17 January 2008

17 January 2008

3i Group plc

Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 16 January 2008 it purchased for cancellation
550,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 900.1649 pence per share.


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