Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
04 December 2006


                                  3i Group plc


                           Purchase of Own Securities



3i Group plc announces that on 1 December 2006 it purchased for cancellation
700,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 964.224 pence per share.







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