Transaction in Own Shares

TRANSACTION IN OWN SHARES

Close Brothers Group plc (the 'Company') announces that on 20 February 2017 it transferred 193 ordinary shares of 25 pence each from treasury to a participant in its employee share plans. The transfer price was 931 pence. Following the transfer of these shares, the Company holds 487,685 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 150,156,043 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

Nicholas Jennings

Company Secretary

Close Brothers Group plc

LEI code: 213800W73SYHR14I3X91

20 February 2017

020 7655 3100