TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES
Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 2 January 2018 it transferred 2,829 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to participants in its employee share plans. The transfer price was 1143 pence. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 654,453 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 151,405,837 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).
John Hudspith
Deputy Company Secretary
Close Brothers Group plc
LEI code: 213800W73SYHR14I3X91
2 January 2018
020 7655 3100