Transaction in Own Shares

EP Global Opportunities Trust plc (the "Company")

The Company announces that on 30 December 2011 it purchased 30,000 of its own
Ordinary 1p shares at a price of £1.660377 per share. The shares have been
placed into Treasury.

Following this transaction, the Company has 8,541,917 Ordinary shares held in
Treasury and 55,967,725 Ordinary shares in circulation. The total number of
shares in issue remains as 64,509,642.

30 December 2011

Enquiries:

Mhairi Macdonald
Edinburgh Partners Limited
Tel: [phone]

The Company's registered office address is:

12 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4DJ