Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
27 November 2006


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 24 November 2006 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 971.969056 pence per share.




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