Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
07 August 2007


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 6 August 2007 it purchased for cancellation
100,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1065.75 pence per share.







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