Directors Shareholding

IP Group PLC
03 April 2007


                                  IP Group plc

                         Director - transfer of shares


IP Group plc ('IP Group' or the 'Company') (LSE: IPO), the intellectual property
commercialisation company, announces that it received notification on 2 April
2007 from David Norwood, the Company's Executive Chairman, that with effect from
23 March 2007, 109,091 ordinary shares of 2p each ('Ordinary Shares') have been
transferred from his own name (registered in the name of Peel Hunt Nominees) to
The James Hay Personal Pension Plan in which he is a beneficiary, at 131.8p per
share, off market.


There is no change to Mr Norwood's beneficial interest in the Company, which
following this notification remains at 4,280,172 Ordinary Shares representing
1.4 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital.


3 April 2007


Enquiries:


IP Group plc                                     020 7489 5200

Alan Aubrey, Chief Executive Officer

Liz Vaughan-Adams (communications)               020 7489 5206/07979 853802


Buchanan Communications                          020 7466 5000

Mark Court, Tim Anderson, Mary-Jane Johnson



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