Latham & Watkins is among the firms that advised Aon in its insurance mega-deal with Willis Towers Watson - Insurance broker Aon plc is tapping a team of antitrust partners at Latham & Watkins to defend its planned $30 billion acquisition of Willis Towers Watson againstSix Latham partners - E. Marcellus Williamson, Daniel Wall, Ian Conner, Lawrence Buterman, Michael Egge and Marguerite Sullivan - filed notices of appearance in the case on Friday in Washington, D.C., federal court.
No counsel had appeared for Willis in the D.C. litigation as of Friday afternoon. Willis was represented by attorneys from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Matheson in the 2020 deal. Representatives for Aon declined to comment; Willis Towers Watson did not respond to requests for comment.Wall, who began his legal career in the Justice Department’s antitrust division in the 1980s, is among the attorneys defending Apple againstthe federal government's case against Apple over e-book price-fixing, resulting in a conditional $450 million settlement in 2014.