Transaction in Own Shares

Electra Private Equity PLC
15 January 2007

Electra Private Equity Plc ('the Company')

15 January 2007

Electra Private Equity Plc announces that on 15 January 2007 the Company
purchased for cancellation 100,000 ordinary shares of 25p each at a price of
£15.00 per share representing 0.26% of the issued share capital.

Following this transaction the Company now has 37,502,687 ordinary shares in
issue.


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