Fishburn Hedges

22.04.2009

This is the first time that Liquidnet has employed an agency in Europe and follows a competitive pitch involving eight short-listed agencies. Focusing initially on the UK, Fishburn Hedges will also help to raise the company’s profile across a number of continental European markets, primarily targeting traders for institutional investors.

 Launched in Europe in 2002, Liquidnet provides its buyside community Members direct access to the leading global institutional equities marketplace enabling them to trade in 30 markets across the globe without accessing exchanges. Liquidnet’s headquarters are in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

 The Fishburn Hedges team will report into Damian Kington, who runs marketing for Liquidnet in EMEA and Tom Gibbons, Corporate Communications, in New York.

 Damian Kington said: “The team from Fishburn Hedges impressed us with its industry knowledge, contacts and enthusiasm, coupled with an ability to support our business across Europe. We very much look forward to working with them to further establish Liquidnet as the global institutional marketplace for equities trading.”

 About Liquidnet

 Liquidnet is an electronic marketplace that facilitates institutional equities trading for asset management firms worldwide. By accessing liquidity from multiple liquidity sources – including a natural liquidity pool of more than seven billion shares globally - Liquidnet’s unique trading model consolidates and delivers the institutional equities market directly to the desktops of nearly 600 buy-side trading firms. This greatly reduces the impact of market fragmentation, minimizes opportunity costs and delivers substantial market impact savings that are then passed on to individual investors. Launched in 2001, Liquidnet now trades in 29 equity markets across five continents.

 Liquidnet is headquartered in New York with offices in London, Toronto, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. Additional company information is available online at www.liquidnet.com.