Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 15 March 2012 it purchased 23,037 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.79478 per share. The shares have been
placed into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 9,585,954 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 54,923,688 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

16 March 2012

Enquiries:

Kenneth J Greig
Edinburgh Partners Limited
Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4DJ