Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
10 August 2007


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 9 August 2007 it purchased for cancellation
1,250,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 1052.008 pence per share.




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