direct/ St James Capital Holdings, Inc.: Substantial Investment in Growthvest plc

Company Invests £10 Million Into Growthvest plc

NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/16/2005 -- St James Capital Holdings, Inc. (OTC: SJCH) announced on December 12, 2005 that it had subscribed for 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares of 1p each in Growthvest plc and in the amount of £100,000 (US$176,000).

St James has today subscribed for 100,000,000 Growthvest plc Ordinary Shares of 1p each and at a price of 10p each in the amount of £10,000,000 (US$17,600,000).

Growthvest plc is now planning its admittance to the United Kingdom Junior Market as well as the OTC Pink Sheets Market in the USA as a "Foreign Issuer." Growthvest plc is implementing an American Depositary Receipt ("ADR") Programme, these ADRs to be quoted on the OTC Pink Sheets Market.

Stephen Lumb, the President of St James confirmed that Growthvest had now established its foundations as a Commercial Real Estate Company in the United Kingdom and now had in place its Legal, Administration and Property Analysis Divisions coupled with a hugely experienced Management Team. Stephen Lumb confirmed that Growthvest plc had commitments from various banks to borrow up to an initial £800,000,000 (US$1,412,000,000) to create its portfolio. Stephen Lumb has been appointed as Deputy Chairman to Growthvest plc.

St James Capital Holdings, Inc. ("St James") owns the UK based St James Resource Management Limited Group of Companies which operate primarily in the Structured and Corporate Finance arenas advising clients on capital raising, restructuring and admission to equity markets in the United Kingdom and in the United States. St James invests on a short term basis in these companies as well as providing short term capital prior to their flotation on the UK and USA equity markets. St James places lines of stock in these client companies for cash, post their admission to the UK and the USA equity markets and provides PIPE Financing. St James also holds a portfolio of development Real Estate in the United States as well as a very significant portfolio of quoted equities which are accounted for as Trading Stock.

St James has a net asset value in excess of US$600 million and posted earnings in excess of US$4 million in the last financial year. St James now has in excess of 100 clients which are in the process of seeking admission to the UK and the USA equity markets at this time; as well as a large number of existing clients whose stocks and financial instruments are quoted on the OTC BB Market and on the OTC Pink Sheets Market.

St James Capital Holdings, Inc. creates American Depositary Receipt ("ADR") programmes for each of its clients which allows for arbitrage opportunities and creates a smaller "float" for each of these companies. St James provides clients with introductions to highly skilled and aggressive Investor Relations companies to create significant stock awareness and stock liquidity. St James arranges PIPE Financings for its clients through its own resources and through third parties.

St James is now planning a move into the Banking and Trust Company Sectors to provide additional services to its clients to exploit numerous synergies with companies in which it holds an interest and with certain strategic partners. St James will be involved in the creation of a new United Kingdom Commercial Real Estate Company and intends to play a significant role in that Company.

Statements contained in this press release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the Company´s expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties beyond the Company´s control, including but not limited to economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company´s operations, management team effectiveness, expansion strategies, available financing, market prices and recovery costs, government regulations involving the Company, facts and events not known at the time of this release, and other factors discussed in the Company´s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements.


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St James Capital Holdings, Inc.
investor@stjcapital.com




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