TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 14 January 2013 it transferred 1,423 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price was nil pence. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 3,141,699 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 147,457,943 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Assistant Company Secretary
14 January 2013
020 7655 3100