TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 5 April 2016 it transferred 24,925 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price was nil. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 770,317 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 149,873,411 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
5 April 2016
020 7655 3100