Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
18 January 2008

18 January 2008

3i Group plc

Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 17 January 2008 it purchased for cancellation
450,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 902.1742 pence per share.


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