Arden Partners plc
15 November 2006


For Immediate Release                                           15 November 2006

                               Arden Partners plc
                           ("Arden" or the "Company")

             Pre-close period update for year ended 31 October 2006

Arden Partners plc (AIM: ARDN.L), the independent institutional stock broking
business serving high quality companies in the mid and small cap market, today
issues a trading update ahead of its close period relating to the year ended 31
October 2006.

The year proved an important year in the development of Arden as the company
successfully floated on AIM in July 2006. In addition, the Company's core
business areas of corporate finance and corporate broking, sales, trading and
research have all continued to make very good progress.

Notwithstanding the volatility experienced in global equity markets during the
early part of the second half and the more recent challenging market sentiment
towards new issues, Arden enjoyed a successful second half of the year. Overall,
the Directors of Arden are delighted with Arden's achievements over the year and
announce that they expect turnover and profits for the year ended 31 October
2006 to be in line with the market's expectations.

It is intended that the results for the year ended 31 October 2006 will be
announced on 15 January 2007

For further information, please contact:

Arden Partners plc                                               0207 398 1630
Tony Bartlett - Chief Executive Officer
Trevor Norris - Finance Director

Altium                                                           0207 484 4040
Garry Levin

Buchanan Communications                                          0207 466 5000
Mark Edwards
Nick Melson


Notes to Editors

Arden Partners is a research-led institutional stockbroking firm, founded in
2002, which successfully floated on AIM in July 2006 at 162p per share.

The Company provides high quality research, institutional stockbroking,
corporate finance, sales, trading and market making services to corporate and
institutional clients, predominantly in the small and mid cap markets.

With offices in London, Birmingham, and Bristol, Arden is broker, Nominated
Adviser and/or financial adviser to 33 companies in a variety of sectors, 11 of
them are quoted on the Official List, with the remainder on AIM.


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