TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 19 January 2016 it transferred 6,212 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The highest and lowest transfer price was 1155 pence and 590 pence, respectively. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 855,730 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,779,107 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
19 January 2016
020 7655 3100