Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
18 January 2007

                                  3i Group plc



                           Purchase of Own Securities





3i Group plc announces that on 17 January 2007 it purchased for cancellation
325,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1027.7875 pence per share.




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