Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
15 February 2006

                                  3i Group plc



                           Purchase of Own Securities





3i Group plc announces that on 15 February 2006 it purchased for cancellation
250,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 900 pence per ordinary
share.




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