Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 19 December 2011 it purchased 11,543 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.5587 per share. The shares have been placed
into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 8,375,188 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 56,134,454 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

19 December 2011

Enquiries:

Mhairi Macdonald

Edinburgh Partners Limited

Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square

Edinburgh

EH2 4DJ