Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
03 August 2007


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

3i Group plc announces that on 2 August 2007 it purchased for cancellation
1,100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1066.5654 pence per share.


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