Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
07 December 2006


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 6 December 2006 it purchased for cancellation
800,000 of its ordinary shares at a price of 977.4581 pence per share.



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