TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 8 April 2013 it transferred 59,165 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 3,010,533 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 147,596,311 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Assistant Company Secretary
9 April 2013
020 7655 3100