LSE: instructed Bird & Bird on launch of EDX derivatives marketBird & Bird’s two-year-old merger with Sweden’s Gedda & Ekdahl has secured the technology specialist a major trophy client in the shape of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

The high profile instruction saw Bird & Bird brought in four weeks ago to advise the LSE for the first time on its alliance with Swedish exchange OM Group to create a derivatives market for London.