Transaction in Own Shares

Electra Private Equity PLC
19 December 2006


Electra Private Equity Plc ('the Company')


19 December 2006


Electra Private Equity Plc announces that on 19 December 2006 the Company
purchased for cancellation 120,000 ordinary shares of 25p each at a price of
£14.66 per share representing 0.32% of the issued share capital.


Following this transaction the Company now has 37,602,687 ordinary shares in
issue.

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