Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
06 August 2007


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 3 August 2007 it purchased for cancellation
1,200,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1071.4 pence per share.







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