Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 19 March 2012 it purchased 32,819 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.798134 per share. The shares have been
placed into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 9,623,495 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 54,886,147 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

20 March 2012

Enquiries:

Kenneth J Greig
Edinburgh Partners Limited
Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4DJ