TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 13 May 2013 it transferred 16,675 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 2,866,723 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 147,740,121 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Assistant Company Secretary
14 May 2013
020 7655 3100