Transaction in Own Shares

18 May 2011                                  

                         STRATEGIC EQUITY CAPITAL PLC                          

Strategic Equity Capital plc (the "Company") announces that on 17 May 2011 it
purchased through the market for cancellation 500,000 of its own shares of 10p
each at a price of 87.5p per share.

The purchase and cancellation will reduce the number of ordinary shares in
issue to 74,195,474. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the
Company is now 74,195,474, and this figure may be used by shareholders as a
denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the
Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Sue Inglis/              Canaccord Genuity Limited         T: 020 7050 6779/
Gordon Neilly                                                 020 7050 6778