Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 8 March 2012 it purchased 13,863 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.745482 per share. The shares have been
placed into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 9,516,917 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 54,992,725 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

9 March 2012

Enquiries:

Kenneth J Greig
Edinburgh Partners Limited
Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4DJ