Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
15 January 2007




                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 12 January 2007 it purchased for cancellation
325,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1027.288462 pence per share.




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